Teaching self-defence to girls in Nairobi has cut rates of sexual assault among participants in half. IMpower, a dual-gender program, teaches girls to defend themselves and boys to intervene in assaults by adapting feminist models of empowerment self-defence to a Kenyan context. The course has slashed rates of sexual assault and related ills: the rate of pregnancy-related school dropout plummeted by 46% among participants.

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