Listen to Us Land Ownership and Property Control: Grassroots Women Document Innovations in Practice

The lack of land ownership and control over housing are destructive to the everyday lives of women in much of Africa. As widows and orphans, they face physical displacement and mental stress, literally uprooted from their communities and social networks. This blow is worsened by the atrocities of genocide and pandemic HIV-AIDS that ravages entire families and leaves women, frequently sick with the disease, to shoulder the burden of care.