I and a colleague met yesterday with representatives from FIDA Kenya, a pro-bono group of Kenyan lawyers founded in 1985 who provide legal aid services to marginalised women. It appears to me to do a very important job in providing access to justice. They have been engaging with the issue of corruption, as this letter in the Kenya Times indicates:

FIDA Kenya notes with a lot of concern that it is the women who suffer most when such mammoth corruption [the Anglo Leasing scandal] is allowed to continue, unabated, as women continue to struggle to meet their most basic needs of food, shelter and clothing.

Corruption is an affront on women and denies them their basic right to survival. It is mind boggling to imagine what such vast amounts could do for the women in Kenya, who form the bulk of the poor and who the government has refused to prioritise, in terms of financial allocations to priority projects that affect women the most.