in
kenya there is a woman who did the
impossible
she created a whole village just for
women and no men not even me
can enter who is she how
did she create a village and why are men
not allowed
in kenya in the middle of the desert is
a village called
umuja and this is where i found
rebecca my name is rebecca lolosoli i
created this village where only women
allowed
30 years ago rebecca was in an abusive
marriage
she was beaten and treated like a
second-class citizen
but when she looked around she saw that
she was not the only one
she was not alone it's normal for women
to be beaten and raped it's normal for
girls
to be married as kids and it's even
normal
for them to have their private parts cut
and mutilated in some guru culture it is
traditional for a girl to be circumcised
when she's ready to be married
it's so normal that when rebecca asked
the authorities to protect them from
their husbands
no one helped the world turned their
back
to them
so one day she and a group of 14 other
women
decided to create their own world
we said we don't need men we can make it
on our own
all the men around them thought how
could they possibly make it by
themselves
they were women and women are weak but
rebecca
and her women proved everyone wrong they
picked out a piece of land called it
umuja
which means unity and with their own
hands
they built everything they built huts
out of
mud and trees they made jewelry by hand
and sold to tourists for money they even
created a school to teach their own
children
in this village the women sing they
dance
they raise their children in peace
entirely without men's presence
in their own little world no men are
allowed
to live here not even their own
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boyfriends
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at first some men were jealous so they
set up
their own villages nearby to block
tourists from coming in they even got
into umuja
and attacked the women but rebecca and
everybody else held strong they saved up
money
and eventually bought off the entire
men's village now umuja
is a hundred women strong and each and
every one of them
is a success story
this is what happens when women get
chances they succeed they can build a
society
they can lead they can run businesses
they can thrive
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but unfortunately in most situations
women aren't even given the chance to
prove
themselves
is
our governments need to make better
policies to protect
and give more chances to women and we
as parents need to educate our sons to
respect women
so that one day not just this village
but the whole planet
will be a place where women can succeed
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