Group leader Jane Waithageni Kimaru, 60 years old, strikes a punching bag to show women how to fight off a potential rapist and escape, during a Taekwondo self-defense class for women in the Korogocho ...
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's poorest women risk the deadly diseases related to poor sanitation because "endemic" sexual violence in the capital's sprawling slums keeps them away from its communal ...
I saw early on how a small but determined group of women can change the course of their families’ futures. That was when I ...
Enumerators for a planned mental health baseline survey at three major slums in Nakuru and Naivasha during a training in Nakuru last week. [Loise Wanjiru/Mt Kenya Star] For ages, safety and security ...
AHMEDABAD, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hansaben Rasid knows what it is like to live without a water tap or a toilet of her own, constantly fearful of being evicted by city officials keen on ...
(SOUNDBITE) (English) LOCAL WOMAN-TURNED-TEACHER, NEETU GUPTA, SAYING: "They don't have mobile phones or smartphones, or even though they have, they are not able to operate them properly. So, that's ...
Fighting adversity and faced with extreme poverty in the Kampala urban slum of Nakawa, was no deterrent for Rugby Africa Unstoppable ( <a id="d6cb5418-506a-3ab0-a1ec ...
NAIROBI, KenyaNAIROBI, Kenya — In a Nairobi slum named Korogocho, which means “crowded shoulder to shoulder” in Swahili, a group of women navigate raw sewage and sharp metal edges of roofing to attend ...
For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Enumerators for a planned mental health baseline survey at three major slums in Nakuru and ...