Duo hopes to change view on 'woman's place'

Manuel Kitolo, a board member at the Taita Taveta Wildlife Conservancy. [Jayne Rose Gacheri, Standard]

Manuel Kitololo and Charles Iliga grew up in Taita Taveta county. Both men lived in the Taita Taveta Wildlife Conservancy, a protected landscape of 17 conservancies.

For many generations, men reigned supreme with women facing many injustices such as being denied leadership positions in conservancy boards and committees, gender-based violence, child marriages, and land and property ownership, among other injustices.