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Wempower is a London based media platform focused on stories of ordinary women that are inspiring, powerful, inclusive and positive. We want to rewrite the narrative, with stories that sounds and looks like yours. Stories of women that are fighting and working to build a new generation of empowered women. These stories are the testimony that the world is filled with ambitious and remarkable women, ready to lift each other up, willing to fight and speak up for the one that can’t.
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Thursday Feb 06, 2025
Thursday Feb 06, 2025
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Kenya is facing a deepening water crisis, with 15 million people lacking access to safe water and 37 million without proper sanitation. As droughts intensify, water scarcity is disproportionately affecting women and girls, who are often forced into dangerous situations just to secure this basic necessity.
In this episode, we speak with Cecilia Achieng Ayot, a feminist activist and former member of the Nairobi County Assembly, who has dedicated her life to fighting against water cartels and the inhumane practice of sextortion—where women and girls are coerced into exchanging sex for water.
Having experienced this reality firsthand growing up in Kibera, Cecilia shares her powerful journey from survival to activism, her fight to criminalize sextortion, and the ongoing struggle for women’s dignity and economic empowerment in Kenya. Her story is a testament to resilience and the urgent need for systemic change in the face of gendered violence and climate injustice.
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