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Wangu Kanja: I was raped at gunpoint, I resorted to drinking to numb the pain

You run a foundation. What does it do?

Wangu Kanja Foundation focuses on sexual violence, because that is what I went through. I understand what a person goes through and what kind of support one requires. We also accommodate survivors and victims of gender based violence, whether man or woman or child. I started my foundation in 2005 because my rape ordeal happened in 2002.

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