Rebecca Samaria Lolosoli

founder and matriarch of the Umoja village in the Samburu County of Kenya.

Rebecca Samaria Lolosoli (born 1962) is the founder and matriarch of the Umoja village in the Samburu County of Kenya. The village is a refuge for women fleeing sexual abuse, and men are banned from the village. She plans to run for local office and will be the first Samburu woman ever to do so.[1]

File:Rebecca Lolosoli in 2019

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  • "Wearing green uniforms they blended with the trees and when women collected firewood, the soldiers would jump out and rape them, laughing like it was a game,"


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