The residents, many of whom belong to the Kalenjin community, invented a union between women and fellow women to tackle childlessness. “Women are allowed to marry fellow women in the event one of them is barren or has failed to bear a boy child after several attempts,” Patrick Arap Tanui, a Kalenjin elder says. Inside her heart there was still a gap since she did not have a boy child to take care of the home in her elderly days. James Arap Kimeli, another Kalenjin elder explains how the women manage to sire children while in such unions. “Close family members usually agree on the man to be involved in siring children with the married woman then the man is approached.

Source: Daily Nation June 04, 2018 06:44 UTC