In a community hall in Korogocho, a slum in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, an instructor takes his students through their paces, but unlike the usual fitness fanatics, today’s class is a group of elderly women learning self-defence techniques.
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I’m Worth Defending (IWD), which conducts the training, teaches self-defence to school-children, young men and women, and most recently, to elderly women in Korogocho and other Nairobi slums.
Frida Wambui*, 60, is one. Two years ago, three drunken young men broke into her home in the middle of the night and brutally raped her.
“They knew I lived alone… they broke [down] the door and came in and covered my eyes with a blanket, then they raped me… and left me there just lying on the floor,” she told IRIN/PlusNews. “I can’t believe people young enough to be my grandchildren could do that to me.
“When I heard they are teaching women how to beat rapists here, I decided to come and learn,” she added. “Now I know if somebody wants to rape me, I just poke their eyes and make a noise.”
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