to highlight the systemic problems women face every day and how they re overcoming those problems in nairobi kenya the slum of korogocho was once notorious for violence and sexual assault against women but now thanks to its oldest female residents a different story is emerging melanie corridor bomb at a group of grannies you really don t want to mess with. just a few years ago this place was known as a narrow beach most dangerous slum presidents in korogocho lived in constant fear of especially elderly women like the sixty five year old gary. you would hear screams all the time women were attacked by boys who had come to rape them. the grannies of coral gotto as they call themselves were regularly targeted to be stations attackers believed the women wait to be free and that sex with them could cure their own infection almost daily one of those numbers