“It means that we have to walk far, and after 7 p.m. it is too unsafe to do that,” says carolyne who has lived all her life in Nairobi’s Mathare bondeni slum.
Late last year, as she walked to the nearest communal ablutions block, four men blocked her way. They stripped her naked, hit her so hard that she lost a tooth, and attempted to rape her.
“Only the loudness of my screams saved me,” she says. “I am not the only one, so many women have this happen to them.”
There are too few police officers patrolling these areas, map mathare found, and too little effort to install any level of street lighting.
“Women dare not look for a toilet after dark, for fear that they will be physically attacked,” says "They become prisoners in their own homes."
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