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Rahab Mwaniki, the Africa co-ordinator for the People's Vaccine Alliance advocacy group, said it was a "big ask" for Africans to prioritise getting COVID-19 vaccines to help protect others around the world when infection rates at home were low.

His words were echoed by Anneliese Davis, executive director of Rahab’s Sisters, a program next door to the county needle exchange that offers a safe space, food and makeovers for women, many of whom are homeless.

On the other side of Nairobi, in a small, hot kitchen, 35-year-old Rahab Nyawira carefully spreads sweet, white icing over a large two-tiered cake.

Rahab now runs her own baking business and has plans to bring her daughter and two sons into the company.

So many Biblical names sound backward, like Rahab, I wonder sometimes if the whole thing was written by a mental freak like me.