Due to the partition of India, our family was eternally displaced. We lost everything. I have an affinity for refugees who lose their homes due to mindless hate and violence.
After Graduating with a First-Class Honors in my Bachelor of Education, I am now a champion for women’s rights in West Pokot.
I was teased, scorned, and labeled. I was bullied and humiliated in public. My 'friends' reacted in the only way they were taught to: with disgust.
There were times I wanted to give up on everything. My life, my husband, my family. Everything.
Hospital bills, fraudulent doctors, poverty and COVID-19 all contribute to a rise of impoverished teen mothers with nowhere to turn.
Kenya has one of the highest rates of child trafficking in Africa, largely because of the vulnerability of the country's young mothers.
When COVID-19 isolated expectant mothers, Jemimah Kariuki founded an ambulance service exclusively for maternity care.
Gilma Vianna is the first woman to reach the position of Zone Manager in Uruguay. After a long career that has gone from working on soccer fields and tribunals to accompanying the former President, she managed to make her mark and become a trailblazer.
I was always uncomfortable being in a car with someone I didn’t know, especially if it was a male. I was always in search of a female driver.
Here in Nairobi, some of my neighbors who do know about my profession will not talk to me. They literally fear me because they believe I pray for death so I can make a sale.
When they cut me, it left me with extreme pain, excessive bleeding, shock, and genital tissue swelling.
After deciding to perform an abortion myself with pills, I ended up in a hospital, bleeding and at the edge of death.
