Rebecca Samaria Lolosoli

"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,"

"Our village has turned into a shelter," Lolosoli says. Women and girls fleeing forced marriages, or ostracized for being raped, or trying to save themselves from female genital mutilation, come to Umoja in Kenya for safety. Sons are welcome—as long as they are willing to follow the village's rules and do not try to dominate the women"

"We knew it would be dangerous"

"We are like property because we are part of the dowry"

"A Samburu woman does not have a single right"

"Education is most important so they won't be in the dark like us"

"Even in danger, I've never stopped"

"Rebecca Lolosoli: The Beadmaker's Refuge for Women,Published Mar. 8 2011,by Eliza Griswold"