Meet the Indigenous women restoring Kenya’s Mau Forest — and reshaping gender roles

Before dawn breaks over Eor Ewaso, a village in southwestern Kenya, Judy Mukut is already awake.

By 6:30 a.m., she has fetched water, milked the family’s cattle, prepared breakfast, cleaned the house and seen her children off to school.

Only then does she leave home for a resource center run by the Paran Indigenous women’s […]