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SAMBURU, KENYA - MAY 7: The feminist Umoja village in the Samburu region of northern Kenya in May 2008. Leader of the community is Rebecca Lolosoli. She has banded together groups of disenfranchised Samburu women, who have been abandoned by their husbands and communities and has made a refuge for women running from abuse, early marriage and female genital mutilation. (Photo by Kitra Cahana/Getty Images)

SAMBURU, KENYA - MAY 7:  The feminist Umoja village in the Samburu region of northern Kenya in May 2008. Leader of the community is Rebecca Lolosoli. She has banded together groups of disenfranchised Samburu women, who have been abandoned by their husbands and communities and has made a refuge for women running from abuse, early marriage and female genital mutilation. (Photo by Kitra Cahana/Getty Images)