Boxing coach Alfred Analo Anjere (left), founder of BoxGirls Kenya, holds punching pads for Emily Juma during a boxing traning session at the Kariobangi community centre in the northern part of Nairobi. Photos:SIMON MAINA / AFP
The sharp slap of pounding leather gloves attracts the attention of a few passers-by who peek through the barred windows of the community centre in one of the sprawling, impoverished Nairobi suburbs.
Inside the rundown building in Kariobangi-North, it's almost entirely women and girls, all training under the watchful eye of boxing coach Alfred Analo Anjere - founder of BoxGirls Kenya.
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