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the, the type of data so much for those is just as i've been in a coma close by persecution and flights. mean, well for con dreams of another world wake up on not starts june 1st on dw, the
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baby's a place in kenya where i love of life, and the fear of death will hand in hand one level one, the one i'm in dennis, and i'm encouraged by the other women in their stories of, of some we, we, you know, knows that i'm not alone. but i'm not the only one who this has happened to. my husband would have killed me if i hadn't slept or that i'm about that alone. we should see 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 in new mood. jeff, mary, i'm only doctor day has found refuge in one of the traditional mind yet does. so now. the 67 year old only recently arrived in mojo, the village of women day and then go pay has taken her in the good morning. how are you? good, thank you, i'm fine. how can i have a t get dental approved on the i jane still doesn't know much about the young women. didn't i know that she cautiously feels highway for which to explain to you. now, marianne, why did you come here? okay, well and then i have a lot of problems at home and as of 6 was not going to that way. you are safe here
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in the most out of your 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. we stick together and that's that. and the name of the village has no co incidence to mojo means 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. i'm clicking on them. when they 1st arrived, it was clear how distressed you was right. her clothes were worn out and she was star bank will go to the 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.
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she takes mariano on to her when she wants to show her that things are different here in the village of women. very different from the rest of the savannah. mary m o even gets a welcome gift. maryann . no, these are for you. yeah. oh no. 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 in
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the patio. yeah ma'am. where i live, this is my go now that i'm as, ma'am, i don't know what to say and the level of the, of the night goats actually belonged to man the 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 only one. these women want to change a world in which they have no rights to empower themselves. women content and live stock, yet they own how hard 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 point,
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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 emoji, and she's not yet met scenarios, i don't know the welcome. 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 need to. rebecca's mission is to protect women in danger level, you know, i welcome you. know,
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you're a non god. we have some things to talk about. a no matter you. and i said, 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 you, when i do good. now, did you hear about us is not much enough. we were well 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 motor, and then i asked around at that and i'm with and i had a fight with my husband. i mean, the center is a, it was bad and i wasn't safe anymore. are not allowed to log in, they do for you for or have you been data better than the most and were poor to united way? you're not got them. i use 80. i listen carefully as i say to and we don't want any stress here. we've left that behind who we share everything and do everything
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together because we're community, we're only strong as a team. if we, we won't let you out of our site. yeah, i know that 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, i don't. why don't we think i'm poking on? rebecca is was 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. please listen carefully as i'm not allowed here. 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 live here together among women. as you've seen.
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while there are no man, and there will be no man is clear, was from roseland come to the village. teach you is mariam o is now part of the community. when the, when 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. especially 3 years ago. we founded a modem in 1990 because some boy man are violent
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a. this villages for women, voice that wants to win for women who have been driven out of their home and some that i have had to flee the life so that you keep for waiting so long and for children and that kind of 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 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 when we started, most of we didn't know if we could survive on our own, then we can go so, but today we are in our own money light at the job and we get donations. you get that nobody goes to bed hungry. in the end we can send our children to school. and you also got school is the most important thing for children. you're just into your, 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 or you know, until you have to kind of do what i can tackle missing because there are 2 girls being considered picking 9 at mcmann. they are nothing. yes. both has trouble
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background genetic. he's the kind of not enough to get used to getting them. we have to make the right decision is that the children get pregnant because they are poor men out from money to poor families, if you maybe so, you know, and parents agree to marriage because they can't feed all the children and the like to get the terrible record on them again, and then i get in the middle. yes, we have to prevent the yeah. and i think you're really and i'm good with what i love a you the we can protect them at our school with one of one of whom we think the of the yes and the girls will pass on our values and then use what they learned to help the community amenities those don't just go just spoke to the schools in exchange for free education. the fathers have to agree not to marry all
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said daughters only to forego has circumcision based practices are officially submitted in kenya. but the some go to pay little hate for them and i get them to get and get to school 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 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 isn't. and they'll spread the news to other girls on line. the initial and they'll learn just how much is the boys won't minutes and then bring home just as much money for their families. i have a bucket. well then okay. my new my like out the model, that's how girls will finally be valued as much as boys that are so cool. tell 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
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can you let me know? i'm very proud of what we've created. well, 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 pride of that culture did a yeah. this and buddha and for the magnificent beaded jewelry, neighboring tribes call them the bunch of flies. 99 and 9 and the color like
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this weighs a good, a teenage the women only take you talk to sleep. even the problem say, and i've, i've been wearing this jewelry since i was a small child. and by that never went 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 a young man come with this goes for themselves with gifts of beads, for sex whenever they want. the family is not allowed to refuse. if the girls become pregnant that forced to have an abortion unmarried off to an older man in exchange for diary even when they're under age one of
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the ones that again, this is actually 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 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 dies. the number one, the cody mean montana has only been in emoji for 6 months, and it was one of us and me for one. and i'm a see i 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 let's. so then i'm very sorry.
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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 he could have done more to, you know, i just, my whole life is one big car or, and i'm actually the did you left him engine on it? 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 not, and i don't want to see him again. but what about the money it had ended up maybe i'm not very 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 by the lake even both ways to my way out of the village and they can met. i met him. i don't get that muscle now. and then one minute wasn't
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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 hands and to do better than the man to create a more peaceful world. 63 year old suzanne chalet, anti 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 to accounting. i was especially bad when i came here. i fled one night when people were being killed like animals. i think during the hope we get windy weather, assemble on to kinda new mode. you old women are a chrome comfortable. they face the same problems. yeah. minus,
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i can't sit down man anymore, types of not even the side of them. once i bumped into my husband outside pulling, then 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. 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 for today, the women want to buy a billy, get that here. then trade with
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the the women always come in and now it's great. and then trying to show as much self confidence as possible the, their appearance is a personal of from to the young assembly of 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, you know,
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what about this one? the, come out name a price on the $23000.00 shilling. which was the fastest 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, what we have free people. i'm not giving you a good 7800 shillings or get lost. yeah, you showed them get a the $7500.00 or get out of the make us a fair price. no, many
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a go costs around 4000 canyon 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 rather disadvantage 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 we wanted. that makes me feel happy that the legs and the icing on the cake. the goal is healthy enough. to feed the whole village, the
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men somewhat baffled goats and capital has always been assemblers greatest assets. up until 40 years ago, 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 last. this is posted 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
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mary on the list to move into her own house. but the roof of her future mind yet to is lee king rose susanne and christine have collected countdown, which they need to bring to the page with cash and who to kind of most of the tax is a sealant. my . so for me, life is easier without man. i'm one of the and i, when i can do what i want to know, then you 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 of the i guess that's right. some of the that we
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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 when we share every single and hardly ever argue like it, i don't know so funny, but we're also women and sometimes we get on until the middle of the now i wonder what and that's usually about who made the most beautiful jewelry, who had that in result, the most interested in the 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 way 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 come to 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 all sadly, the deal would secure a father several cows from his daughter's future husband. that rose and jane went to protect. some will have found the agree. cordova non 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 it. thank you very much for this offer. but why did you choose our daughter and will submit, let's still kind of cool the vin number. mm hm. and then go and get the senior. she's gonna get on that little 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 either one of them 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 don't give them up and rather than they are a match or no, not seeing them. i thought we are very grateful to you and the yeah, we couldn't even bicycle books and other like i said, i got it in the mail,
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but the parents don't know the conditions yet often 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 never really written that i'm if i didn't really know if i but there are problems that's clear that you're done with 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. but i've heard that circumcision can be bad for the girls and make them sick. and now the even the governments against it gotten to be with the news. so i wouldn't have send them a circumcised can you maybe the way you can of another. and i want her to go to school to look out of them, which is why i wasn't
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a lie to myself that i know that you know, we are not now not doing on a it's a surprising the positive response. dnd is agreed sooner than expected to. busy 7 year old similar has no idea what she's avoided. well, she's, she's looking forward to recess. i'm looking forward to recess. lucy, the the, 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 wash the youngest children's high school children's heads, a shame this cost of the tradition,
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the canary, m. o. even bates and middle some piece her youngest. she had to leave 4 sons behind when she fled, he could and them when they get the lay of one of them, i often think about them. but one of these would be, you know, done bases in a minute and then i don't know how they are. and then the now school starting the monday. and i wish they could go to identical to what i can get a new level of coverage. and that would be to invest and making that item of another maybe that will be a chance to bring them here later in the plan 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. it's a well now 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 low jack she's proud of the tough 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, kinda nominated for what? for outside scope. because this is going to be great, and who slaughtered is. we slaughtered and will drink, the blood will go to bed. o and satisfied. is the good good, but they living in by the time the,
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[000:00:00;00] the moment rebecca sousa coming to the feast, the villages or rehearsing stones announces in her, on the use of the new week still need some practice. and mariano is still getting the hang of things. the, the,
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the, the, the price is the success. rebecca shows her appreciation by mingling with the don't says the weather is cooler and the feast is ready to 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 fun. 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'm going to google slaughter to go to that and we will. and when we got that full eat the meat, we, what we got to make with the, i'm going, it still feels so good to eat the best parts of the go to the parts. we never get me back. the diana is only 13 years old. she's had a shelter, childhood,
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a new mode you and has internalized the women's values side of life. like and last summer, miguel, and when i'm old enough, i want to go to university or is that, do you 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. let's say you and i'm daniels, i mean, i fucked on those. if i ever change my mind, 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 put them to 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 to listen to what the teachers say. so take care, have fun. and i can't wait to hear all about it. let me know 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 daughter safely home. again, this often 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 one of the older pupils quickly tied you up because we knew chatting to begin the system a lot on technologies made roads. the teacher doesn't want to miss this special moment. the principal registers similar 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 2 things one, hailey ending bush can use 2 official languages. is the most important thing for the 1st graders of the mold in the 60 languages and dialects in the country. seminar, the nose, mom, the language of the assembly room. i want to learn math writings, for helium languages. the cost is a next. the next generation of the mode. yeah. the boys as well as the goes on to carry the village philosophy into the future. the what did i get? i'm done when i get out what i'm going to set up, i know that all these girls won't have to suffer what i did, the your family,
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we protect them from general cutting in child marriage. i'm so happy for these children that are the 1st and then the positive school. she's been looking forward to find that he begins recess the with hot chocolate and taste for luggage. the . the women who mowed yet go to bays in the evening in the nearby. i was a rizza, they want to show nary m o y, which is the safest. the washing ceremony always begins with a noisy ritual to scare off the crocodiles that live in the river.
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well the. c for the individual and exuberant at the same time, it's how they faced so many of nice challenges the me this time by the result is almost the same for the women the yeah. doesn't that make you happy to do anything in washing like when we were children?
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mariam has become part of the community in the i guess a 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 because you know, doesn't know what's going on. the other one and yet look, the emotion has shown me that i can survive in my own life. there's always a way, one of them, the new one now i the problem is another thing given the says, 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 as a major dreamed of
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