Today we had a woman named Carol-Ann, come in and show us videos of the Kibera Girls Soccer Academy in  Africa. She told us about how women in Kibera, Africa get treated differently than the women in the United States. One major thing that came to mind is how the women don’t have a chance to choose the right man. The parents of the the girl makes the decision for them. They can be as young as seven and be married off. In the United States, women have to be 18 or older to get married and they can choose their husband. Most of the time, the women don’t even see their husbands only the day they get married. Another major thing was, Carol-Ann told us how the girls get raped a lot. I feel bad for the women and girls living in Africa because of the way they are treated daily. We also learned about the women who live in Kibera that get AIDS because it is passed on to them from their sexual partner. I think this isn’t right because, all women should get treated equally and not like slaves.

If I was one of those girls in Kibera, Africa, I wouldn’t know what to do. One way to try and help them if I did live over there would be to get myself active in every way and when people come over to visit I would the first one speaking to them.