Kenyan Schoolboys Save Girls From Rape After Learning 'No Means No'

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So those who think rape prevention training should only include things such as women carring mace and using the buddy system--think again

Nairobi — The schoolboy watched as a man tried to remove the nappy of a little girl he was dragging along a Nairobi riverbank, suspecting that he was going to rape her.

Having been trained to defend girls against sexual assault, the boy called other young men to help him confront the man and rescue the child.

"It would have been fatal," said Collins Omondi, who taught the boy as part of a programme to stamp out violence against women and girls in Nairobi slums. "If this man would have assaulted this kid, he would have thrown her inside the river."

Omondi teaches a programme called 'Your Moment of Truth', run by the charity Ujamaa Africa which encourages adolescent boys to stand up against violence towards women.

The training is "highly effective" in improving attitudes towards women and increasing the likelihood of successful intervention, researchers from Stanford University, University of Nairobi and United States International University-Africa said.

The training increased boys' successful interventions when witnessing physical or sexual assault by 185 percent, from 26 to 74 percent, according to their study to be published later this year in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201503241509.html

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1. Rape is terrible

Bravo to those Kenyans for taking a stand against evil. Philosophically the difference between good and evil can be analyzed and discussed at length. These boys learned in real life what really matters. That is, the difference between good and evil sometimes is you, what you do or fail to do.

[ismnotwasm]

2. +1

Well said!

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3. Amazing success from the program.

No telling what these boys had been accustomed to, but they sure learned this lesson well. It needs to be done here as well. Boys who don't learn to respect women grow into men who degrade, batter or rape.