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knows that's all for this, how i've mixed a documentary from a town in kenya where the women rule this quote and mojo. and you'll learn more about it after a short break. i'm anthony howard, in berlin for me in the team here. it's been good to have it with us, and they'll have more headlines for you in 45 minutes. in charlotte. the kind of energy move people than ever on the world wide and such a big loss ass latasha committed to actually find out about regina stories. info migrants
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there was a place in kenya where another of life and the theme of death will hand in hand one level one, the new one and dennis and i'm encouraged by the other women and their stories. so we, we, you know, know that i'm not alone, but i'm not the only one to this has happened to my husband would have killed me if i hadn't slept or that i'm about that alone. we should be the, the 5 o'clock in the morning in the land of december 2 in northern kenya. the sun is
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still hiding behind mount kenya. but the day has already begun a new move. jeff, mary, i'm only took a day, has found refuge, and one of the traditional mind yet has so now the 67 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 get dental approved when i jane still doesn't know much about the young woman didn't now that she cautiously feels highway for which mm hm. 6 a day. now, marianne oh, why did you come here? okay, well and then i have a lot of problems at home and it was not given exactly. you're safe here in
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a motel. you're 6. you can relax here. just put on the women lived together here, young and old. we do everything together from now on. you won't go anywhere alone. we stick together and i said in the name of the village is no co incidence to mo, jemine's connectedness. in swahili it's fain jane's home for over 33 years. the women have family. she wants the same scenarios. oh, good, good, good. and i want to make them when they 1st arrived, it was clear how distressed she was right. her clothes were worn out and she was starving when i'm actually over to me. so i think she wasn't well when i 1st saw her and that's exactly what jane wants to change.
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she takes mariano under her wing. she wants to show how that things a different tier 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. yeah. oh the the mariano can hardly believe that some blue women unless entitled to any property, no capital, no land knows even the children they bad wives become their husbands property during weddings.
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the patio yeah ma'am. um what i live in this is my go now as ma'am i don't know what to say in a level the other night goats actually belonged to man man. and this is the 1st thing i've ever owned on my own that the women in the news is that breaking up to booth. 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. yes, they own how hard the the rest of the village is now awake. an official gathering will soon be held under
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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 t center of power for the 48 women in and since she now lives outside road yeah. she's not yet met scenarios. i don't know the welcome for them and that'd be one. okay, awesome. did you all sleep well this rebecca wants to know more about the new arrival woods go around in kenya, the to move to helps women. but it's not about feeding the need. a rebecca's mission is to protect women in danger. what are you? i welcome you have an adult. you are
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a non god. we have some things to talk about. no matter you. and i said, you know why this village is here? yes. yes, i know why. if you will now listen here, when i 1st want to know how you got here with you, when you go, no, did you hear about us is not messing up with the man. that's the model 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 that that, and i'm with and i had a fight with my husband finding the setting and it is a, it was bad and i wasn't safe anymore. not allowed to log in to do it for you for or have you been beat of that of another one of those were poor too low. you know, you well, you're not got them. i use area and yeah, listen carefully. as i said, we don't want any stress here, we've left that behind who you are, that we share everything and do everything together. because we're a community,
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we're only strong as a team. if we leave old, let you out of our site. yeah, i know that and the women will show you how life is here and when you, when the, when done, i'm only here occasionally. i don't know why we think i'm poking on. rebecca's words carry weight, but she's not the head of the village. mojdeh is democratic, the women decide collectively big box. there's one rule that isn't top for debate mariano, welcome me. listen carefully and i'm not allowed to, you're not at all. you cannot bring a man into the village even if you fall in love. well, let's otherwise, we'll all have a problem. we lived here together among women. as you've seen. while
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there are no men, and there will be no man is clear was from rose la, come to the village teacher. mary. m o is now part of the community. when the 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 that we founded mojo in 1990 because some blue men are violent
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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 flee. and the more luck the life of the youth, for widows of bundle and for children, and that that a year and a single woman strength 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 be rebecca left have violent husband, 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,
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cuz the sound got to get you when we started remote or we didn't know, i guess 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, you get that nobody goes to bed hungry and the, and we can send our children to school. you know, they've got school is the most important thing for children. who can just you and guide you into them? they learn what their rights are there to, to your data to data that shows have 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 to you 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,
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jeanette. i know her down right now kind of not enough to give another is to get her the money we have to make the right decision is that the children get pregnant because they are poor. men out for money to poor families if you maybe 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 when, when you get to know what i think a you know, we can protect them at our school with one of one of whom we think the beginning. yes. and the girls will pass on our values of them and use what they learned to help the community community. those don't just get a spot at the school and exchange for free education that fathers have to agree not
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to marry. all said autism early on to forego has a conversation based practices are officially submitted in kenya, but the assembled paid to hate quiet. i'm going to get them to get and get to school, go and get them on the line. girls who attend or school don't only study to become a nurse or a doctor one day that one in that category so much. 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 loving them onto community. and they'll spread the news to other girls online, the initial and they'll learn just watches the boys won't medicine and then bring home just as much money for their families. i must say, well then, okay, my new my like out the 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 when i'm over the
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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 happen. and i also know now that they can manage fine without my goodness. and the women has become very independent, especially financially. jewelry is the main source of income and the pride of that culture did a new system. buddha and for the magnificent beaded jewelry, neighboring tribes call them the bunch of flies
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color, like this weighs a good 18 legs. the women only take you to go to sleep in the event. but not a problem say, and as i've been wearing this jewelry, since i was a small child and by that never one. and i was also taught early how to make my own necklaces not have i told them that i know it's just part of my culture and then i want to be getting it done by 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 beads, 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 one of the ones that again, this is actually
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a thunder gain insight. my daughter was still a baby when i came to an auto terminal on that. i think that she won't be a be girl. not, i'll protect her from the one that i can. you know that here i've learned the beads can also help us out and i'm going to make you do we now earn money with the euro type guy. the number one, the cody mean and montana has only been in emoji for 6 months. and it was for the 70 and i'm a senior by come from so yeah, 3 days walk away. i was on the run when i heard about the women's village. no, to not on the. somehow i found my way here. and it was my salvation. look, this is where he started me with the bush. nice it bledsoe,
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my and then i'm very sorry. it was a little when you know what, but if you did even take me to the hospital, 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 i'm actually the, did you left? imagine on that that's and honestly, i never loved him, but i'm glad to be rid of them. i don't 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, i'm ok. just be careful. the same thing doesn't happen to you is it did to korea in maybe imagine one night her husband showed up here and just grabbed her. she screamed loudly. i bought the one that we all ran over and threw stones out here by the lake, a little ways to my way out of the village and they can met. i met him,
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i don't get that muscle now. and then one minute was talking about their experiences, gifts, the women that voice back, they don't want to be victims any longer. they want to take their lives into that a hands and to do better than the man to create a more peaceful wealth. 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 december to serve us. is he like you to lead to the conflict between the simple row and the door? canada was especially bad when i came here. you know, i fled one night when people were being killed like animals. i think during the cope we get windy weather assemble on to kinda in new mo jeff old women are a chrome comfortable. they face the same problems. yeah. minus,
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i can't sit down man anymore. parties are not even the side of the that 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 since he bite, and i can't stand men anymore. oh no, that's the but the women, if emoji account completely avoid 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 ability get that here,
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and then trade with the the women always come in and now it's great. and i'm trying to show as much self confidence as possible the, their appearance is a personal la from the young assembly room where 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, you know,
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what about this one? the, the come out name of price by the $23000.00 shilling. which was the fattest one of course the the women galloway empty handed. but giving up, please know, it's an option they try the next big what do you want? we have free people. i'm not giving you a good 7800 shillings or get lost. yeah, you showed them get 7500 or getting out. make us a fair price? no, many
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a go costs around $4000.00 canyon shillings or about so i see you rose. the women went give up. what about the they know where we come from. they know that in the mode you only children and women will be eating the meat, then they don't like it. and they want to humiliate rather disadvantage and can't get a fair price. and the, you know, that the women pass via and finally succeed. everything that i gave, you know, the, it's a struggle every time, but we got what is on it. yeah. my goodness. that makes me feel happy. not giving into the legs on the icing on the cake. the goat is healthy enough to feed the whole village. the
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men, a somewhat baffled ghosts in capital, has always been and assemblers racist assets up until 4 years ago. and they still lived as no magic cut 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 lattice is pronounced it with model and countdown and covered with animal skins, growth mats, and now sometimes also plastic. it's physically strenuous look which in a mode yes is only done by the women. mariam
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uh was to move into her own house. but the roof of her future mind yet to is leaking the rows. suzanne and christine have collected countdown, which they need to bring to a page with ash and who to think of the kind of most of the tax is a seasoned my . so for me, life is easier without man and the, and i, when i can do what i want to know then yes. well, i don't have to get permission from anyone thinking any of that. right? yes, exactly. and we've always done everything. anyway. what about the men sat under the tree in the shade playing marbles of the i guess that's right. familiar. the
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that we did repairs, had cook wash milk, fed the animals pneumonia is not certainly a safe haven for women, but also a functioning co operative give them back. i don't know why we share every single and hardly ever argue i don't know so, but we're also women. and sometimes we get on until the middle of the now i don't know what and that's usually about who made the most beautiful jewelry. who would have that in result? the most interested? no one i was talking to today. uh, let me me the women have carved out their own independence. a real height. the basic principles they live by respect and solidarity are a stock contrast to the well they came from the
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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 you the refuses to sign the contract. we can't do anything this end of the end of the end. do they give you more than we do that? i mean, they worked for about an hour to reach the village of so many let me come to the farm and he 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 referral to several cows from his daughter's future husband. that rose and jane want to protect matlab will have found the agree hold on the line. hello,
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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 you. thank you very much for this offer in the why did you choose our daughter and will submit let's do kind of cool the not doing that. i'm not gonna do. hm. and then go and get to go. 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 about this one out and get it. well, 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 know, sponsor and that i don't get them up and rather than they are a 99. i thought we are very grateful to you and the you a bunch of like yeah, we couldn't even bicycle books and other like us that the news about it is
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that the parents don't know the conditions yet. often none of them are 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 like i said, no, really, we're not, i'm not, i didn't really know if i but there are problems. that's clear ones that you're done with it. the other men will ask me why i'm going against our culture out of another. similar would be the 1st go in our village not to be circumcised to another major, but i've heard that circumcision can be bad for the girls and make them sick and that the even the governments against it and you'll be with the news. so i wouldn't have said that was circumcised to me to continue maybe to where you can of another . and i want her to go to school to out of that,
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i will send somebody to myself that i know you know, we are not, is not going on. it's a surprisingly positive response. dnd is agreed sooner than expected to 7 year old. somebody that has no idea what she's avoided. mostly she looking forward to recess. i'm looking forward to recess. the most of the moving it now rose and jane's mission was successful. the village is full of excitement preparations. it 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 heads. a shame this cost of the tradition
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canary, m. o. even bates and mental sun piece her youngest. she had to leave 4 sons behind when she fled to them when they get the lay of one of them. i often think about them, but one of the so would you let on 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 a new level of coverage. and i want you to list and making that item of that level . maybe there will be a chance to bring them here later in the lab level. 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
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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 new and better future. the festival is the most important celebration of the full image of the go. slow is how much of the festivities they use the entire animal to ensure the whole village can benefit. jane is a co found a as in load. yeah. she's proud of the top. she's taken may
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go. yeah. i didn't know when you're doing. i live in the middle of my, you know, my go young. if i could survive without a man, i got a note on today. i can eat all i want. well, half of the women prepare the food. others connect firewood we need a lot of wood more wood christian avenue for what? for outside scope. this is going to be great and who slaughtered is we slaughtered and will drink the blood will go to bed depot and satisfied and not. yeah, it means the good. yeah. but they living in bass. i'm
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the, [000:00:00;00] the moment rebecca is to say come into the feast. the villages are hosting stones and down says in her on the use of the lyrics still need some practice and mariano is still getting the hang of things the, the, the,
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the you the, the price is the success. rebecca shows her appreciation by mingling with the down . this is the weather is cooler and the feast is ready. it does meet with potatoes, rice, tomatoes, and cabbage. meat is expensive and special. the women's diet consists mainly of vegetables, fruit, and cereals. and now you remember when we bought our very 1st coat and the apple by making it no good,
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i'm sure i'll never forget it. that was fine. and then the men chased us after we left the market. i'm not the one i need to know. i know they couldn't believe it, you can gather with them. why do you have a goat for us so many of them that i wonder, you've a lot of the go to that and we will. and when we got that full eat the meat we, well we got a lot of other make with the i'm going it still feels so good to eat the best parts of the go to the parts we have the never get me back. the diana is only 13 years old. she's had a shelter, childhood,
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a new mode. yeah. and has internalized the women's values side of life and i can last summer again. and when i'm old enough, i want to go to university or is that have an am i you? are you? i don't want to get married the guy, you know, i'd rather stand up for human rights. i tell you, and i'm daniel, i need i bought the if i ever change my mind a minute, it will only be for a man who really loves me and respects my rights we live in does a lot. but from what i know, there are no such med the today is not just any day for 7 year old simila. it's have 1st day at school,
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but i didn't get them. listen to what the teacher say. take care have fun. and i can't wait to hear all about it. the human. i'm so happy that my daughter is getting an education because i'm no negative, so none of our family has ever been to school. i'm so grateful. it's nice. and so many as mother can rest assured that the school bus will bring her to, to safely home. again, this of the this will be similar 2nd time for the next 8 years. and that's how long
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she can go to school. and while the older pupils quickly tied yet because we knew chapter begins for similar type last nights rose, the teacher doesn't want to miss this special moment to either. the principal registers simila, he's one of the few man allows him the, the 1st grade is a between 6 and 8 years old. we're going to sing the elephants on
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the findings when he and english kenya's 2 official languages is the most important thing for the 1st graders of the more than 60 languages and dialects in the country . simila minos mom, the language of the symbol i want to learn math readings for helium languages. the cost is a mixed. the next generation of a mode you the boys as well as the goes on to carry the village philosophy into the future. the cold around again i'm so when i get out what i'm going to put up, i know that all these girls won't have to suffer what i did,
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the your family protect them from general cutting in child marriage. i get even i gotta, i'm so happy for these children that are the 1st and the positive school. she's been looking forward to find that. he begins recess with hot chocolate and taste for language. the the women of emoji, i go to bays in the evening in the nearby i was so rizza. they want to show nary amo where, which is safest. the washing several many ways begins with a noisy ritual to scare off the crocodiles that live in the river
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the the, the vigilant and exuberant at the same time . it's how they say so many of nice challenges in the me this time by the result is almost the same for the women. yeah. doesn't that make you happy to do anything and washing that was like when we
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were children? mariam has become part of the community, is the i guess the foot mother and the i'm fine the i'm free now and can do what i want to do. i was so stressed before arguing with my husband about every little thing. nobody wants to go know the one yet. look, emotion has shown me that i can survive in my own life. there's always a way, one of the, well, now i, the phone number is another. so you can give me the see if it's given me strength. my, the i fall asleep unafraid. the 2nd i live in peace and you'll know the the, the women is dreamed of
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