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Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.00,0:00:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are the voices of grandmothers ranging from their sixties to nineties in the
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.00,0:00:09.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Korogocho slums of Nairobi.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.06,0:00:14.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is their version of a war cry. As they fight to\Ndefend their human rights and
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.04,0:00:16.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially their sexual rights.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.05,0:00:21.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I joined this karate training group because of the kind of lives we live here. I wanted to
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.06,0:00:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,learn the skills to defend myself against \Nattackers. Many grannies have lost
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.00,0:00:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their lives and some were even raped and hung dead outside of their windows at night.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.00,0:00:38.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today they are in class to learn how to fight\Npotential violators.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.07,0:00:43.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sheila Wairimu, was so concerned with the grannies from Korogocho,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.06,0:00:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that she started karate classes for them.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.00,0:00:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Way back in the year 2005 \Nwhen we experienced rape,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.00,0:00:54.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially on grannies who used to be raped and brutally murdered.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.07,0:01:00.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I encountered three cases of old women, \Nwho were raped and later brutally
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.07,0:01:06.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,murdered. So along with my friends we \Nwere able to start a self defense team.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.05,0:01:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The single mother of one spends two days in a week training the elderly women in karate.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.00,0:01:18.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her classes are free. Despite the fact she herself\Nstruggles for money by selling coffee.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.05,0:01:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On average she makes about two dollars a day. Hardly enough to sustain her family.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.00,0:01:28.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I sell black coffee very early in the morning at the \Napartment where I live.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.04,0:01:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes I go to school and ask for paid classes whose proceeds
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.00,0:01:43.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we buy flour for the grannies and also \Npay for the hall in which we train.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.04,0:01:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No .. your hand can not protect your face. Always \Nhave it at guard
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.00,0:01:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The self defense training sessions are a home grown response to violent attacks on
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.00,0:02:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grandmothers in slum. Young bandits here often rape elderly women before or after
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.00,0:02:05.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,committing a crime. They believe that this will prevent them from being caught.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.06,0:02:11.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sheila was taught martial arts in 2005 \Nfrom a volunteer. Now it is Sheila's
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.07,0:02:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we had an 80 year-old woman who had been gang raped\Nby ten men.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.00,0:02:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,turn to volunteer. In three years she trained\Nover 60 elderly women in Korogocho.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.00,0:02:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I joined this self defense training group \Nbecause previously, men attacked old women's
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.00,0:02:34.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,homes and did all sorts of things to us. \NMany grannies lost their lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.06,0:02:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I needed to learn how to defend \Nmyself instead of always making calls
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.00,0:02:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for help from neighbours every \Ntime my home was attacked.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.00,0:02:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Statistics from the largest gender based violence \Nrecovery centre in Nairobi indicate
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.00,0:03:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they treated 4,815 people who were raped between 2008 and 2010.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.00,0:03:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,4,093 were women. But this is just a fraction of
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.00,0:03:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the total cases reported nationally \Nas many cases go unreported.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.00,0:03:19.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Since inception in 2001 we treated over 15,300 \Ncases of gender violence survivors.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.08,0:03:27.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which includes both sexual violence \Nand domestic violence,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.08,0:03:30.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with sexual violence being the highest. 90 percent of these cases are of sexual violence.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.06,0:03:39.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,49 percent are women, 45 percent children \Nand around 6 percent are men.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.07,0:03:47.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We do have cases of elderly women. \NOur oldest client was a 105 year old woman.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.09,0:03:52.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just last week we had an 80 year old woman who had been gang raped by ten men.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.08,0:03:56.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fact is women's rights remain a \Nsensitive subject in Kenya.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.08,0:04:01.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Making rape a hard crime to convict.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.02,0:04:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sexual violence is one of those private offenses.\NFirstly its un-African for people
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.00,0:04:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to discuss sexual or reproductive organs.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.00,0:04:19.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is still a lot to be done.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.01,0:04:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The kind of questions rape\Nsurvivors are asked de-motivates.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.00,0:04:31.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite this, Sheila continues unrelentingly with\Nher endeavor to arm this women with
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.07,0:04:37.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the valuable self defense skills and at least restore their self esteem. But why?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.03,0:04:43.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My heart goes out to the grannies because of \Nwhat they were going through and seeing that
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.05,0:04:51.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of age, they are old and frail, nobody \Nis able to stand up and fight for them.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.10,0:05:00.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sheila however envisages a future free of\Nrape cases not only here in Korogocho,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.08,0:05:05.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in other parts of the country where she intends to start similar classes and continue
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.03,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with her efforts, to empower more elderly women\Nto defend themselves against violators.