'This forty acres is giving us income and...all the income goes to an account and we actually allocate it to the girls as bursaries. That if our husbands cannot raise school fees – they prefer raising school fees for the boys – at least we can take the girls with our own money to school.’

The words of a woman living in rural Kenya inspire Winny Chepkemoi to believe in the possibility of positive change, as she discusses in this first episode of a new podcast from the Women's Land Rights Institute. And she remembers how she first came to realize how valuable land can be as a tool for raising women and girls out of poverty.

Winny Chepkemoi is a gender expert with Kenya Land Alliance. She was a participant in the inaugural course from the Women’s Land Rights Institute exploring effective ways of securing land and resource rights for women. You can find out more about the course and sign up here.

And you can find out more about the work of Kenya Land Alliance here.

Winny Chepkemoi was in conversation with Dominic Black.

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The Women's Land Rights Institute PodcastBy WLRIAug 19, 2021