17 Aug 2015

An African Village Of Rape Survivors Where Men Are Banned

NAIROBI (Web Work area) – Umoja is a town in the fields of Samburu, in northern Kenya, which is much the same as some other African town aside from no men live here. 

Watchman reported that Umoja is a lady just town that started as an asylum for survivors of sexual roughness who have flourished in the single-sex group. 

The town was established in 1990 by a gathering of 15 ladies who were survivors of assault by neighborhood English officers. Umoja's populace has now extended to incorporate any ladies getting away tyke marriage, FGM (female genital mutilation), abusive behavior at home and assault – all of which are social standards among the Samburu. 

Rebecca Lolosoli is the author of Umoja and the town female authority. She was in doctor's facility recuperating from a beating by a gathering of men when she thought of the thought of a ladies just group. The beating was an endeavor to show her a lesson for challenging to identify with ladies in her town about their rights. 

The ladies and young ladies who know about the shelter come and figure out how to exchange, bring up their youngsters and live without trepidation of male viciousness and segregation. 

There are as of now 47 ladies and 200 kids in Umoja.