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The village, founded in 1990, [3] is an all-female matriarch village located near the town of Archers Post in Samburu County, 380 km (240 mi) from the capital, Nairobi. It was founded by Rebecca Lolosoli , a Samburu woman, as a sanctuary for homeless survivors of violence against women , and young girls running from forced marriages or female ...
Kakenya Ntaiya (born 1978) [2] is a Kenyan educator, feminist and social activist. She is the founder and president of the Kakenya Center for Excellence, a primary boarding school for girls in the Maasai village of Enoosaen. [3] The first class of 30 students enrolled in May 2009. [4]
Rebecca Lolosoli talks about Umoja Women's Village in Kenya. Lolosoli, born in 1962 in Wamba village, was one of six siblings. She attended Wamba girls' primary school in 1971 but left before completing her education. Lolosoli was born in the village of Wamba in 1962 and was one of a family of six brothers and sisters. [5]
From 1970 to 2003, hundreds of women claim they have been raped by British soldiers in the north of Kenya. Accused of bringing shame on their community, most of them have been beaten and repudiated by their husbands. A number of them gathered and created Umoja, a women-only village that quickly became the refuge of Samburu women.
Many foreign men and women take part in sex tourism, which is thriving at resorts along Kenya's coast. Thousands of girls and boys are involved in casual child prostitution [5] due to poverty in the region. Sex workers report abuse, extortion and violence from the police. [3] Japanese prostitutes (the Karayuki-san) serviced British colonialists ...
The KSA said it has taken custody of the object that landed in the remote village of Mukuku, in the southern county of Makueni, describing it as apparent space junk measuring 2.5 meters (about 8 ...
Nice Nailantei Leng'ete was born in 1991 in the village of Kimana in Maasai country, Kenya.She was orphaned when both her parents died in 1997 and 1998. She spent her early years moving among many different homes in her village.
Northwell Health focuses on how women need access to supplemental screening tests to find the cancers that mammograms might miss.