Of place in kenya where i love of life and the fear of death. Go hand in hand. What level, what do i do with them and goodness. And im encouraged by the other women in their stories of some we, we, you know, knows that im not alone. But im not the only one who this has happened to. My husband would have killed me if i hadnt slept or that im about that alone. We should see the, the 5 oclock in the morning in the land of december 2 in northern kenya. The sun is still hiding behind mount kenya. But the day has already begun a new move. Jeff, mary, im only doing good a has found refuge in one of the traditional mine yet as for now, this as the 7 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, im fine. How can i have a tea get dental approved when i jane still doesnt know much about the young woman. Didnt or not she cautiously feels highway for which. Mm hm. 6 a day. Now, marianne, why did you come here . Okay, well and then i have a lot of problems at home. As of 6 was not doing that for you. You are safe here in the most out of your 6. You can relax here, just put on the women lived together here, young and old. We do everything together from now on. You wont go anywhere alone. So we stick together and thats that. And the name of the village is no co incidence to mo, jemines connectedness. And so he may its thing, james holmes, over 33 years. The women or her family, she wants the same scenarios that good course in order to make them when they 1st arrived. It was clear how distressed, too was her clothes were worn out and she was star bank when im gonna shoot for me. So if i think she wasnt well when i 1st saw her and thats exactly what jane wants to change. She takes mariano under her wing. She wants to show her that things a different here in the village of women. Very different from the rest of the savannah. As of mary m. O. Even gets a welcome gift mariano. 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 the the, this is my go now of them i dont know what to say and the level of the, of the night goats actually belong to man, man. And this is the 1st thing ive ever owned on my own that to me in the news is that breaking a tip is and its 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. Yeah. They own whole the the rest of the village is now awake. An official gathering will soon be held under the big acacia tree, the womens 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. Shes a key centre of power for the 48 women in and since she now lives outside mo jeff, shes not yet met scenarios. I dont know the welcome for them 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 its most about feeding the need. A rebeccas mission is to protect women in danger. Level you, i welcome you. Have an adult. You are a non god. We have some things to talk about a number of years as 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 with you, when i do good. Now, did you hear about us . Is not much i love, we were well the man thats the little 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 im with and i had a fight with my husband finding the center to say it was bad and i wasnt 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 . Youre not got them. I use 80. I listen carefully as i say to and we dont want any stress here. Weve left that behind who you were, that we share everything and do everything together because were community, were 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 you when dont, im only here occasionally. I dont know why dont we think im poking on. Rebecca as words carry weight, but shes not the head of the village who mojdeh is democratic. The women decide collectively big box. Theres one rule that isnt top for debate mariano, welcome. Please listen carefully as im not allowed here. Not at all. You cannot bring a man into the village even if you fall in love. Otherwise, well all have a problem. We live here together among women. As youve seen. While there are no man, and there will be no man is clear was from rose la, come to the village. Teach you is. Mariam o is now part of the community when the discussed everything, lets say good by god, be with you. The security and solidarity new feelings for the women who seek refuge here. The assembles social order is patriarchal, which is what led rebecca to create a different world, especially 3 years ago. Its good that we found a modem in 1990 because some boy man are violent a. This villages for women boys started on the ones for women who have been driven out of their home and found that i have had to flee the life of the year for waiting so long and for children. And that, that a year and a single women strength has given many women a life less living. But its 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 and men women with a similar fate. They looked for a place close to the some buddha national park. They wanted to sell jewelry to safari tourists because the sound got i could see when we started remote or we didnt know, i guess we could survive on our own. Then we can go so. But today we are in our own money lighted to your we get donations, you get that nobody goes to bed hungry to the end, we can send our children to school. And you also got school is the most important thing for children. Youre 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. Its financed by day nations. Few children from outside the village of picked to attend free of charge. One place is still open this year. You know, im so used to kind of do what i can tackle missing because there are 2 girls being considered picking 9 at mcmann. They have nothing. Yes, both has trouble background, jeanette. I know her down right now kind of not enough to give me another use to get her the money we have to make the right decision is that the children get pregnant. No, because they are poor men out for money to poor families if you maybe so, you know, and parents agree to marriage because they cant feed all the children in the back of the terrible it go down to them again. And when i get in the middle, yes, we have to preventive the. Yeah. And i think youre really and im good with what i love a you know, we can protect them at our school with one of one of whom we think the and the beginning. Yes. And the girls will pass on our values and then use what they learn to help the Community Community goes, dont just go just spoke to the school and exchange for free education. The fathers have to agree not to marry. All said daughters only to forego has circumcision based practices are officially submitted in kenya, but the sample paid to hate for them and i get them to get and get to school and get them on the line. Girls who attend or school dont 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 marriages. That will be so many months. And theyll spread the news to other girls on line the initial and theyll learn just how much is the boys wont minutes. 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 thats how girls will finally be valued as much as boys that are so cool. Tell them one when they have decided to to accept rose and jane will visit the family the next day to win over the father, the scanning it doesnt know. Im very proud of what weve created. Well, this bond we have not this place of respect happen. 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 price of that culture did a system blue and known for the magnificent b to jewelry. Neighboring tribes call them the bunch of flies and the color, like this weighs a good, a teenagers. The women only take your toe to sleep. And even the problem say, and as ive been wearing this jewelry since i was a small child and but that didnt everyone. And i was also taught early how to make my own necklaces not have i told them that i know its just part of my culture, right. And then im going to be getting it done that the the beads and not just on the mental. They also remind the women of the some blue tradition where 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 goals become pregnant, that forced to have an abortion unmarried off to an older man in exchange for diary even when theyre under age of the ones. 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 wont be a bead girl. Not, ill protect her from the one that i can. You know, that are here. Ive learned the beads can also help us out, and im going to make sure that 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 that was with us and me and im a see, i come from say, a 3 days walk away. I was on the run when i heard about the womens 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 somebody then im very sorry. It was a little when you know what, but he did even take me to the hospital and thats when i decided to run away. And then he could have done more to the other man, i just my whole life is one big car or, and im actually the did you left him engine on it . Thats and honestly, i never loved him, but im glad to be rid of them. I dont know, i feel better now not, and i dont want to see him again. But the money had ended up maybe im not very im ok. Just be careful. The same thing doesnt 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 you and then they give them both ways to move way out of the village and they can met. I met him, dont get that muscle now in the middle of talking about their experiences gives the women that voice back. They dont 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 wild. 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 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. You know, i fled one night when people were being killed like animals. I thank you and i 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 i cant 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 war. And i couldnt stop crying because he bite and i cant stand men anymore. Oh no, thats 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 really good but here then trade, weve met the, the women always come in and knowledge creep. 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 here. Suppose to so its a goes not tell me what to do. What do you need a good for tweet . Of course the, you know, what about this one . The, come out name a price by the 23000. 00 shilling. Which was the fastest one of course the the women galloway empty handed. But giving up pays nothing option. They try the next big what do you we have free people. Im not giving you a good. 7800 shillings or get lost. Yeah, you showed them get a the 7500. 00 or make us a fair price . No, many a go costs around 4000. 00 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 dont like it. And they want to humiliate rather disadvantage and cant get a fair price. And the yeah, that amount going on. Now. But the women pass via and finally succeed. Everything that i gave, you know, the, its a struggle every time, but we got what we have on it. Yeah. My goodness. That makes me feel happy. That is the end of the legs. And the icing on the cake that goes is healthy enough to feed the whole village. The 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 which we 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 maps, and now sometimes also plastic. Its physically strenuous look which in the mode. Yeah. Its only done by the women, a man or mariam. Uh was to move into her own house. But the roof of her future mind. Yes to is lee king rose suzanne and christine has collected count down, which they need a bunch of other patients with gosh, and who to kind of most of the tax is a sealant. My. So for me life is easier without man. Im one of the and i, when i can do what i want to know then yes, of course, i dont have to get permission from anyone thinking any of that. Right . Yes, exactly. And weve always done everything anyway. The other men sat under the tree in the shade playing marbles of the i guess thats right. The 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 dont know why we share every single and hardly ever argue, i dont know. So when, but were also women and sometimes we get on until the middle of the now i dont know what and thats usually about who made the most beautiful jewelry, who had that in her soul, most interested in the one i was talking to today. Oh and then the women have carved out their own independence. A real high. The basic principles they live by. Respect, solidarity are a stock contrast to the well they came from the rose and jane settle suddenly to visit the gun, accepted to the school. Theyre eager to see if they can convince her parents the may you go to the refuses to sign the contract. We cant 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 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, the several cows from his doors, his future husband that rose and jane want to protect. So matlab will have found the agree, cordova non hello. My name is rose and i come from the womens village of emotions. One yeah, wed like to admit your daughter to our school. Free of charge. You dont necessarily know it. Thank you very much for this offer in the why did you choose our daughter and will simila still kind of cool, but then not, not going with them. Mm. And then go and get the thing else you and get on that. A little bus will collect simila and bring her home to i want the we want to help for families to give their children and education and why that is as well and get it well, you cant pay for your daughter to go to school. Can you give it to you . Thats why we want to support you. Dont give them up the eh, because im not sure. And not the number. I thought we are very grateful to you and the bundle. Yeah. We couldnt even bicycle box is another. Like i said, i got it in but the parents dont know the conditions yet often where they dont really have clear guidelines that no general cutting no child marriage. Okay. We have a contract and you have to sign it. So, so im like, i never really written that im, if i didnt go there, you know, if i dont, there are problems. Thats clear. Then what are the other men will ask me why im going against our culture out of another similar would be the 1st go in our village, not to be circumcised. But ive 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 wouldnt have send them a circumcised me to continue it either way. You get another another and i want her to go to school to out of that, which is why i wasnt a lie to myself that i know that you know, we are not is now going on. Its a surprisingly positive response. The dnd is agreed sooner than expected. Busy 7 year old, somebody that has no idea what shes avoided. What she she looking forward to recess, im looking forward to recess. Lucy the the, the, the rose and janes mission was successful. The village is full of excitement preparations around the way for the new School Year Celebration a very special day for the women. The mothers wash the youngest childrens have and School Childrens heads a shave, this part of the tradition canary, m. O. Even bates and middle son, hes how youngest she had to leave for sons behind when she fled. That he could add them when they get the land with them. I often think about them, but a well then it would be, you know, done bases in a minute and then i dont 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. Ill kind of get nobody to lift and making that item of another. Maybe that 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 im in dennis. Im encouraged by the other women in their stories. I now know that im not alone. If it will know that im not the only one. This has happened to my husband would have killed me if i hadnt fled about that along. We should see of the, the 12, the vintage 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 the