These women learning kickboxing in Nairobi are not your average grandmothers

Geriatric Mutant Ninja Turtles? A group of elderly women in a Nairobi village rife with danger have turned to kickboxing to keep themselves safe, National Geographic says. Among the dangers elderly women face in Korogocho: A high prevalence of [redacted] assault, particularly as a result of the prevailing belief that older women are easier targets due to their frailty. Canadian director Brent Foster, who documented the women’s experiences in a short film entitled “Enough: The Empowered Women of Korogocho,” says the women eventually took up kickboxing as a form of self-defense to help protect themselves against these attacks (watch, runtime: 7:47).