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Maasai women reap big from tourism

A manyatta guest room at Twala Tenebo Women Cultural Centre in Laikipia North. The units are owned by two women groups.

Before she joined a group of women to do business, Ms Gladys Meshami totally depended on her relatives for a living.

She had little control over her family’s wealth but her fortunes changed a­fter she joined a group of Maasai women in establishing an eco-village for tourism purely owned and ran by women.

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