Quick punches empower girls from Nairobi's slums China Daily | Updated: 2021-07-21 09:28
Alfred Analo Anjere trains Emily Juma at the BoxGirls Kenya club during a session in Nairobi on July 1. SIMON MAINA/AFP NAIROBI, Kenya－The sharp slaps from pounding leather gloves attracted the attention of a few passersby who peeked through the barred windows of a community center in a sprawling, impoverished Nairobi suburb. Inside the rundown building in Kariobangi North, women and girls trained under the watchful eye of boxing coach Alfred Analo Anjere, founder of BoxGirls Kenya. More than 3,000 girls and women have taken up the sport at the center in the past 14 years. A faded picture of the cartoon character Asterix wielding boxing gloves adorns the decrepit walls.