Widow Oppression

Many widows are in most cases oppressed by those who remain around and are to take care of them. Most of them are usually beaten up, property taken from them and sometimes taken into forced marriages by their brother inlaws. The trend seem to be on the rise and many of them are currently out of their homes as they try to accommodate themselves and families too. They live between hard places and rocks as women in he most of these interior communities are considered a property. Gender and governance activists recently carried out an advocacy in the region on the rights of women and children.

Location: Kefinco, Kakamega Central, Kenya