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Girls and Rhinos Have the Same Enemy!
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A young Kenyan thanks her schools for the medicine, confidence and education provided after local options rejected her because she has a disability.
Teen Bryn Healy talks with Global Fund for Women’s Musimbi Kanyoro about the challenges of making the world free of hatred in this first installment of their “A Seat at the Table” conversation. “Activism is a long life of justice,” says Kanyoro.
From communities who pitch in to send a girl to university to the graceful Grevy’s zebra, the writer shares her favorite things about living in Kenya.
Teen Mary Mukami knows that the key to success for women in her country is education. But what she doesn’t understand is girls’ own inability to keep their eye on the prize.
In Kenya, “ongeza kitu kidogo” means “add something little.” But despite its often lighthearted connotation, an attempt to act on this phrase nearly costs Faith Wanjihia’s cousin his education.
In recent months, I interviewed 163 women who were raped – many of them brutally gang raped – during the three-month period after the disputed presidential election. So far, they have been left out of all forms of recognition and reparation.
The writer’s sister had a rough year when she was 14 but things are looking up for her now.
It’s a day-long drive from Kenya’s capital Nairobi to Twala in Laikipia County. The last 50 miles is along a dusty road, and then you arrive at the farm of the Twala Cultural Manyatta. It’s oasis-like, and the moment you enter the gate, the fresh smell of greenery strikes a contrast with the aridity you leave behind.
Despite her father’s abandonment, teen writer Joyce Wanjiru learned about strength and empowerment through the women who stepped up to give her a better life.