Kenyan activists are on a mission to end gender-based violence as attacks on women surge
by Tom Odula
Mar 09, 2024
4 minutes
Njeri Migwi’s phone buzzes incessantly. Phone calls and messages keep coming in from women seeking help to escape life-threatening situations. A mother and her remaining child are looking for a place to stay after her partner allegedly raped and killed her two other children, including a 6-month old.
Moments later, someone calls looking to help a woman who has been nearly beaten to death.
“Sometimes I feel like I am the government, because I'm doing the work that they should be doing,” says Migwi, 43, the co-founder of a community-based organization called Usikimye, which means “Don't be silent” in Swahili. The organization helps women
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