You may remember a story I shared a couple months ago about a brave 12-year old girl that IJM represented. An edited version of the story was included in a Kenyan publication called Kweli Magazine. If you’d like to see the original story, you can read it here: The Story of a Little Girl.
A local publication tells the story of one our wrongfully imprisoned clients. The publication is called Kweli, which means Truth. Worth reading, if you’re interested in this important part of IJM Kenya’s work. The story is titled, “Easy Target” and is on pages 18-19. Also, good job, to Jennie Ozumba, our communications intern, for getting …
When a grown man drags a young girl into his house, forces her to his bed, violently molests her, and then throws her out the door hugging her clothes– she tends to believe him when he says he will kill her if she tells anyone. There’s something long-lasting and credible about a threat made to …
Last year a man murdered 12 women in and around Nairobi, many of them prostitutes. As you can imagine, the women in the industry were on edge. So, when Emma* heard that someone strangled yet another prostitute in a nearby hotel, she went with 17 of her colleagues and reported the crime at a police …