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Helping women claim their rights
Nelly Njoki

Kenya

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“Put your keys here and whenever you open your door, always remember you have opened our eyes and changed our lives as Maasai women.”

When the court house was empty, as the matters for the day had been completed, I passed her on my way out; she did not even noticed my presence until I tapped her shoulder, then without lifting her bowed head she said, “I don’t have anywhere to go; they should have dug a grave for me also.

At the end of the training process, the woman leader gave me a beautifully beaded key holder with my name inscribed on it and she told me, “Put your keys here and whenever you open your door, always remember you have opened our eyes and changed our lives as Maasai women.” That was the beginning of the many doors that I was given the task of opening and it has led to the most rewarding experiences of my life.

As a trainer in peace and human rights issues, I have had the opportunity to train women from both my generation and my parent’s generation. These two generations are diverse and the culture of one is different from the other.

In one of my trainings, there was one woman was the elder one in the group, and I looked up to her for guidance and gave her the respect she deserved.
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