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  • in Kenya, there is a woman who did the impossible.

  • She created Ah whole village just for women and no men, not even me can enter.

  • Who is she?

  • How did she create a village?

  • And why are men not allowed in Kenya?

  • In the middle of the desert is a village called um Ujah.

  • And this is where I found Rebecca.

  • My name's are Rebecca E.

  • Created this village where only women allowed.

  • 30 years ago, Rebecca was in an abusive marriage.

  • She was beaten and treated like a second class citizen.

  • But when she looked around, she saw that she was not the only one.

  • She was not alone.

  • It's normal for women to be beaten and raped.

  • It's normal for girls to be married as kids, and it's even normal for them to have their private parts cut and mutilated.

  • In Samburu culture, it is traditional for a girl to be circumcised when she's ready to be married.

  • It's so normal that when Rebecca asked the authorities to protect them from their husbands, no one helped the world turned their back to them.

  • So one day she and a group of 14 other women decided to create their own world, Way said.

  • We don't need men we can make or not ALS.

  • The men around them thought, How could they possibly make it by themselves?

  • They were women, and women are weak.

  • But Rebecca and her women proved everyone wrong.

  • They picked out a piece off land called it um Uja, which means unity and with their own hands.

  • They built everything.

  • They built huts out off mud and trees.

  • They made jewelry by hand and sold to tourists for money.

  • They even created a school to teach their own Children.

  • This'll village.

  • The women sing.

  • They dance.

  • They raised their Children in peace entirely without men's presence in their own little world.

  • No men are allowed to live here.

  • Not even their own boyfriends, video network criminal getting there.

  • At first, some men were jealous, so they set up their own villages nearby.

  • Toe block tourists from coming in.

  • They even got into, um, Ujah and attacked the women.

  • But Rebecca and everybody else held strong.

  • They saved up money and eventually bought off the entire men's village.

  • Now, um, Ouja is 100 women strong, and each and every one of them is a success story.

  • This is what happens when women get chances.

  • They succeed, they can build a society they can lead, they can run businesses they can thrive.

  • But unfortunately, in most situations, women aren't even given the chance to prove themselves in this world.

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  • Talk it quite quite.

  • Land like our governments, need to make better policies to protect and give mawr chances.

  • Tow women.

  • And we, as parents, need to educate our sons to respect women so that one day not just this village but the whole planet will be a place where women can succeed.

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