a place in kenya where i love of life and the fear of death will hand in hand. what level, what do i do with them? and dennis, and i'm encouraged by the other women in their stories of some we, you know, knows that i'm not alone. but i'm not the only one to this has happened to my husband would have kills me if i hadn't slept or that i'm about that alone. we should be the 5 o'clock in the morning in the land of december 2 in northern kenya. the sun is still hiding behind mount kenya, but the day has already begun a new move. jeff, mary, i'm only a doctor day has found refuge in one of the traditional men yet as for now, this as the 7 year old only recently arrived in logia, the village of women. jane then go pay has taken her in the good morning. how are you? thank you, i'm fine. how can i have a tea getting approved when i jane still doesn't know much about the young women. didn't or not she cautiously feels highway for which to explain to you. now, marianne, why did you come here? and then i have a lot of problems at home because of 6 was not going into that. you're safe here in a motel. you're 6. you can relax here, just put on the women live together here, young and old. we do everything together from now on. you won't go anywhere alone, so we stick together and that's that. and the name of the village is no co incidence to mo, jemine's connectedness. and so he may it's thing, james holmes, over 33 years, the women or her family. she wants the same scenarios that good course in order to make them when they 1st arrived. it was clear how distressed she was. her clothes were worn out and she was star, bank one connection for me. so if i think she wasn't well when i 1st saw her and that's exactly what jane wants to change. she takes scenarios under her wing. she wants to show her that things a different here in the village of women. very different from the rest of the savannah. mary m o even gets a welcome gift. mariano these are for you? yes. oh no. hey, mariano can hardly believe that some blue women are most entitled to any property, no capital. no land knows even the children they bad wives become their husband's property during weddings in the the this is my go now that i'm that's ma'am i don't know what to say is the level of the, of the night goats actually belong to man, man. and this is the 1st thing i've ever owned on my own that to me in the news is that breaking a tip is and it's not the any one of these women want to change a world in which they have no rights to empower themselves. women content and live stock. yeah. they own whole the the rest of the village is now awake. an official gathering will soon be held under the big acacia tree, the women's traditional meeting points, the canary amo has already found shelter in new mo, jeff. but any one passing congrats had permanent residency. rebecca noticed only the founder of the village. she's a key centre of power left for the 48 women in and since she now lives outside and lo, jeff, she's not yet met scenarios. i don't know the welcome hold on one everyone. okay, so did you all sleep? well? rebecca wants to know more about the new arrival. woods go around in kenya, the to move to helps women, but it's most about feeding the needy. rebecca's mission is to protect women in danger. level you. i welcome you. have an adult. you are a non god. we have some things to talk about a number of years as you know why this village is here. yes. yes. i know why the video now listen here when i 1st want to know how you got here with you when you go now, did you hear about us is not much. i know we're well the man that's the i came from far away. i bought it for almost 2 days and then another woman told me about a movie on it. and then i asked around at that, and i'm with and i had a fight with my husband finding the selling and it is a, it was bad and i wasn't safe anymore. a loud knocking they do for you for or have you been beat a better than novels and all those were poor to you and that way you're not got them. i use a the idea. listen carefully as i said, and we don't want any stress here. we've left that behind who we share everything and do everything together because we're community, we're only strong as a team. if we leave old, let you out of our site. yeah, you know, and the women will show you how life is here and when you, when you when don't, i'm only here occasionally. i don't know why don't we think i'm poking on. rebecca as words carry weight, but she's not the head of the village who mojdeh is democratic. the women decide collectively big box. there's one rule that isn't top for debate mariano, welcome me. listen carefully. men are not allowed to. you're not at all. you cannot bring a man into the village even if you fall in love. otherwise, we'll all have a problem. we lived here together among women. as you've seen. for years now, there are no man and there will be no man. it's not clear what it's from. rose la, come to the village teacher is mariam o is now part of the community. when the we've discussed everything, let's say good by god, be with you. the security and solidarity. new feelings for the women who seek refuge here. the symbols social order is patriarchal, which is what led rebecca to create a different world. so she, 3 years ago sounds good that we found a modem in 1990 because some boy man are violent a. this villages for women boys started on the one for women who have been driven out of their home and found that i have had to sleep in the life so that you keep for waiting on someone and for children. and that, that a year and a single women strengths has given many women a life less living. but it's hard to imagine the courage rebecca, must have needed back then. the sambota were originally and the magic people, the men rule, the family. they eat fast and they can marry several women. they can also beat them . rebecca left a violent husband and met women with a similar fate. they looked for a place close to the sambota national park. they wanted to sell jewelry to safari tourists, cuz the sound got to get you when we started remote or we didn't know if we could survive on our own, then we can go. so. but today we are on our own money night at the your we get donations because nobody goes to bed hungry. in the end, we can send our children to school. and you also got schoolers, the most important things for children. got you into your, into them. they learn what their rights are there to, to your data, to data that shows i've used the school is the village is pride and joy. it's financed by donations. the few children from outside the village of picked to attend free of charge. one place is still open this year a c and i'm so used to kind of do what i can tackle missing because there are 2 girls being considered. i think a 9 man nothing. yes, both has trouble background, jeanette. i know her down right now. i don't know enough to give another is to get her the money. we have to make the right decision. is that wrong, but that's over and get pregnant because they're poor men out for money to poor families if united way. so, you know, and parents agree to marriage because they can't feed all the children in the back of the terrible it go down to them and get them and getting a little yes, we have to preventive and i think you're really good with what i think a your email that we can protect them at our school with one of one of whom we think the the beginning. yes. and the girls will pass on our values of them and use what they learn to help the community community. those don't just get just spoke to the schools in exchange for free education. the fathers have to agree not to marry. all said autozone to full go, has circumcision based practices are officially submitted in kenya. but the assembled paid little heed quite a them on and get them to get and get to school and get them on the line. girls who attend or school to go normally study to become a nurse or a doctor one day that one in that category. so why would they also learn that they have right along, but i think some of them will get a they have the right to reject general cutting in marriage. that will be so many months in the morning and they'll spread the news to other girls on my lower level than this one. they'll learn just watches the boys won't get it. and then bring home just as much money for their families and have a blessed day love and okay, my new my like as a model and that's how girls will finally be valued as much as boys that are so cool. kill them one when they have decided to, to accept rows and jane will visit the family the next day to win over the father. or can you let me know? i'm very proud of what we've created. level this bond. we have not this place of respect. i think, and i also know now that they can manage fine without me doing this and the women has become very independent, especially financially. jewelry is the main source of income. and the price of that culture did a good system, bhutto. and then for them magnificent be to jewelry. neighboring tribes call them. the butterflies in color, like this weighs a good, a teenagers. the women only take you to go to sleep in the news. even the problem say, and as i've been wearing this jewelry, since i was a small child and by that means everyone. and i was also taught early how to make my own necklaces matter. if i tell them that i'm just part of my culture, right. and then i'm going to be getting it done that the beads and not just on the mental. they also remind the women of the some blue tradition where young men come with this goes for themselves with gifts of beats for sex whenever they want. the family is not allowed to refuse. if the goals become pregnant that forced to have an abortion, and of them married off to an older man in exchange for diary. even when they're under age of the ones they gain, then they shut down the gain, insight. my daughter was still a baby when i came to an auto terminal and that i think that she won't be a bead girl. not, i'll protect her from the have a will not. i can you know that the are here. i've learned the beads can also help us out, and i'm going to make sure that we now earn money with the euro. hi da die. the number one, the cody mean montana has only been in emoji for 6 months, and it was a, that's a new one. and i'm a see, i come from say a 3 days walk away. i was on the run when i heard about the women's village. no 2, not a muscle. and somehow i found my way here. and it was my salvation. look, this is where he started me with the bush. nice it bledsoe, my and then i'm very sorry. it was a little when you know what, but he didn't even take me to the hospital and that's when i decided to run away. and then the you could have done more to you, i don't, i just my whole life is one big car or, and honestly the did you loved? imagine on it. as an honest, i never loved him. but i'm glad to be rid of them. i know i feel better now than that, and i don't want to see him again. but the money had ended up maybe i'm not by. i'm ok. just be careful. the same thing doesn't happen to you if it did to korea in maybe imagine one night her husband showed up here and just grabbed her . she screamed loudly. we all ran over and threw stones out here the yeah. they did it and then they give them both ways to move way out of the village and they can met. i met him, i don't get that muscle now in the middle of things talking about their experiences gives the women that voice back. they don't want to be victims any longer. they want to take their lives into that oh, hands and to do better than the man to create a more peaceful wild. 63 year old suzanne cha, until grand son would normally not be allowed on this side of the river. she belongs to the 2 kind of tried the arch enemy of the some buddha such as he like you to lead to the conflict between the simple world and the door kind of was especially bad. when i came here, i fled one night when people were being killed like animals. i thank you and i hope we get windy weather assemble on to kinda and pneumonia. old women are a chrome comfortable. they face the same problems. yeah. minus, i can't sit down man anymore. parties have not even the side of them. because once i bumped into my husband, outside hooligan i was paralyzed. the name of the memories came flooding back would be the beatings. the violence though. i couldn't stop crying because he bite, and i can't stand men anymore. and as i say, you see the, the women, if emoji account completely of age, the male wealth of the assembled, they have to get food such as rice and beans, at least once a month. they have to go to the next largest village toothpaste. today, the women want to buy a be, get that here and then trade. we've met the, the women always come in and knowledge creep. and i'm trying to show as much self confidence as possible. their appearance is a personal of from to the young assembly who why we use the are you in charge here? get lost, you're supposed to, so it's a goes not tell me what to do. what do you need a good for tweet. of course the net. what about this one? the come out name a price or the $23000.00 shilling. which one? the fastest one of course the the women galloway empty handed, but giving up pays nothing option. they try the next big we're free people. i'm not giving you a good 7800 shillings or get lost. yeah, you showed them get a the $7500.00 or make us a fair price? no, many a go costs around full $1000.00, kenyon shillings or about so see you rose. the women went give them what about the they know where we come from? they know that in the most, only children and women will be eating the meat. then they don't like it and they want to the 1000000 were at a disadvantage and can get a fair price that amount not. but the women persevere and finally succeed. everything that i gave, you know the, it's a struggle every time. but we got what is on it. that makes me feel happy. now getting into the legs and the icing on the cake. the goat is healthy enough to feed the whole village. the men somewhat baffled goats and capital has always been assemblers great to stuff that up until 40 years ago. they still lived as no magic code, is that more and more of the land was the subs. and today, the majority of the tribe lives in permanent villages. the, the hop design is a jones, the frame of demand yet is a timber last. this is pronounced it with model and count on and covered with animal skins, growth mats, and now sometimes all say plastic. it's physically strenuous look which in the mode. yeah. it's only done by the women, a man or mariam will assume move into her own house. but the roof of the future mind, yes to is leaking. rose suzanne and christine has collected count on which they need a bunch of other patients with ash and who to kind of most of the tax is a sealant the fuel mesa is for me, life is easier without man. and i'm one of the and i, when i can do what i want to know then yes. well, i don't have to get permission from anyone. that's right. yes, exactly. and we've always done everything anyway. the other men sat under the tree in the shade playing marbles listed above. i guess. that's right. how familiar the we did repairs had cook wash, keeps milk fed the animals pneumonia is not certainly a safe haven for women, but also a functioning co operative give them back when we share every single and hardly ever argue like it, i don't know. so when, but we're also women and sometimes we get on each other on the 9th avenue board. and that's usually about who made the most beautiful jewelry, who had that in result, the most independent living the one i was talking to today. uh let me me the women have coughed out their own independence. a real height. the basic principles they live by. respect, solidarity are a stock contrast to the well that came from the rose and jane settle suddenly to visit the gun accepted to the school. they're eager to see if they can convince her parents the me you well, the refuses to sign the contract. we can't do anything this end at the end of the end. do they give you more time either that i mean they worked for about an hour to reach the village of so many let me contact the family recently had to sell the last goats just to survive. the goes from such poor families or to high risk of being married or fairly deal with secure a father, several cows from his daughter's future husband. that rose and jane want to protect. so matlab will have found the agree hold on the line. hello, my name is rose and i come from the women's village of emotions. one yeah, we'd like to admit your daughter to our school. free of charge. you don't necessarily know it. thank you very much for this offer in the why did you choose our daughter and will simila still kind of cool, but then not, not going with them. mm. and then go and get the senior. she's gonna get on the school bus will collect simila and bring her home to the we want to help the poor families to give their children and education and why that is as well and get it. well, why don't you can't pay for your daughter to go to school? can you give it to you? that's why we want to support you don't give them up and rather than they are a match or not the number, i thought we are very grateful to you and the bundle. yeah. we couldn't even bicycle the another. like i said, i got it in the mail, but the parents don't know the conditions yet often. um where they don't really have clear guidelines that no general cutting no child marriage. okay. we have a contract and you have to sign it. so, so i'm like i said number written, we're not, i'm not, i didn't really know if i, but there are problems. that's clear ones that you know what are the other men will ask me why i'm going against our culture of another similar would be the 1st go in our village and not to be circumcised. but i've heard the circumcision can be bad for the girls and make them sick now the even the governments against it gone you'll be with the news so i wouldn't have sent them a circumcised me maybe to where you can of another. and i want her to go to school to out of that, which is why i wasn't a lie to myself that i'm not, you know, we are not is not going on. it's a surprisingly positive response. dnd is agreed sooner than expected to. busy 7 year old, somebody that has no idea what she's avoided. well, she's, she's looking forward to recess. i'm looking forward to recess. the person in the moving it now rose and jane's mission was successful. the village is full of excitement preparations that runs away for the new school year celebration a very special day for the women. the mothers washed the youngest children's hat and school children's head. a shame this part of the tradition mary m. o. even bates and middle son, he's a young guest. she had to leave for sons behind when she fled. but he didn't know when you get the level of them. i often think about them. but whether it and it would be, you know, done bases in a minute and then i don't know how they are. and then the now school starting, i went on monday and i wish they could go to identical to what i can get. i'm in level of coverage and that was due to illness and making that item of another maybe that will be a chance to bring them here later. and that's why i never mariano is slowly adjusting to when you have one level one, the one i'm in dennis, i'm encouraged by the other women in their stories. i now know that i'm not alone. if it will know that i'm not the only one this has happened to on the road, my husband would have killed me if i hadn't slept about that along. we should see of the, the 12, the village is strictly off limits to men. the women sometimes can live with them until they come of age. then they have to leave the village, but they leave with what the women here have told them. the village school stands for a 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