A growing movement across the country is getting communities of color involved with National Parks and other outdoor spaces.
Changing the Face of National Parks
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Time and Trauma
Through interviews, surveys and focus group discussions with 258 households in Mathare during 2016 and 2017, I found that women faced huge challenges and trauma in collecting water. Besides the woes of finding a running tap and wasting valuable time waiting in queues, procuring water entails physical hardship that often leads to mental agony that sometimes even threatens the women’s safety.