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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\u2019s experiences in a short film entitled \u201cEnough: The Empowered Women of Korogocho,\u201d says the women eventually took up kickboxing as a form of self-defense to help protect themselves against these attacks (<a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Gender-power-differences-email.jpg\">watch, runtime: 7:47<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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