Consultant in the Real Estate and Finance Practice Group
DLA Piper Africa
It is often said that “the true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members”. In Kenya, we have approximately eight million widows, comprising 12 percent of the local population.
Sadly, the country is also ranked among the top 40 nations with the harshest environment for widows. Widows are likely to experience discrimination, violence, exposure to retrogressive cultural practices and are often disenfranchised from inheriting property.
