WOMEN MARRIED TO OTHER WOMEN SING SONGS ABOUT THEIR MISERY AND POVERTY, 2002-04-09 (photo)

Priscila Mulekyo, an "Iweto" a woman married to a childless woman to provide them with children, dance and sing about their poverty and misery in Kenya's Kyanzasu village in the arid Machakos district, 120 kilometres from Nairobi, April 9, 2002. Although a dying tradition among East African Bantu people, some barren women marry women with children to ensure their family line lives on and they have a new generation to provide for them in their old age. The Maweto women (plural of Iweto), who give up the rights to their children, say they are rejected by society which sees them as little more than unmarried prostitutes. REUTERS/George Mulala GMM/CRB