Meet the only village in the world where there are no men and why

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The village where only women reside is Umoja (which means “unity” in Swahili), located in the Samburu County of Kenya. The village was founded in 1990 by fifteen women who had been sexually assaulted by British soldiers stationed in the region. Some of these ladies had experienced sexual abuse in the past.

In recent years, the number of women living in Umoja has increased as they flee Samburu cultural practices such as child marriage, female genital mutilation (FGM), domestic violence, and rape.

Umoja provides a safe haven for women seeking to escape these detrimental cultural conventions. Rebecca Lolosoli, known as the village’s matriarch, founded Umoja.

Umoja is currently home to approximately 47 mothers and 200 children. These intelligent women and girls earn a consistent income, allowing them to provide everyone in the community with food, clothing, and a place to live, despite the fact that everyone else in the town lives on a tight budget.

Groups of safari visitors normally stay in a campground along the river about a kilometer distant, which is run by the community’s leaders. In addition to these tourists, Umoja is visited by a great number of tourists passing through the surrounding natural areas.

The local women have chosen to charge tourists a nominal fee for entering the hamlet. They hope that once the tourists are inside, they will visit the craft center where the ladies work and purchase some of the jewelry they have created.

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