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group of 16 raped women, denounced and provide for their children and
outcast by their families on a patch of sun-dried, themselvesthrough the sale of their beadwork to
neglected land granted to them by the Kenyan the tourists visiting the nearby Samburu
government at the behest of Rebecca, is today a National
unique group of 50 flourishing, happy women
and girls, orphans and widows, and even a few Rebecca has also served as the chairperson for
beloved goats. Despite repeated threats and her local chapter of Maendeleo ya Wanawake
Organization, a national empowerment and
attacks from men of neighboring villages,
Rebecca continues to work for women’s rights. development organization for women. She
Her goal is to curb violence against women and has attended various local and international
workshops and seminars on indigenous
the negative cultural practices that are harmful to
women’s health, safety and well-being. She has people, women and human rights in the US,
also been instrumental in improving the South Africa and Europe, which have given
her the opportunity to raise awareness of
economic situation of the women in her
community. Through the trainings received issues facing not just the women of Samburu,
but women across Africa. End
locally and internationally she has educated the
women of Umoja in business and craft skills. Chapter (4) sūrat l-nisāa (The Women)
The Samburu women of Umoja are now able to Yusuf Ali: O mankind! reverence your Guardian-Lord
Who created you from a single person created of like
nature his mate and from them twain scattered (like
Desk of the Imam is a publication of Masjid seeds) countless men and women; reverence Allah
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