{"id":4031,"date":"2004-03-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/03\/10\/2004-03-10-kenyan-convicts-perform-fashion-show-for-hindu-council\/"},"modified":"2004-03-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-10T12:00:00","slug":"2004-03-10-kenyan-convicts-perform-fashion-show-for-hindu-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/03\/10\/2004-03-10-kenyan-convicts-perform-fashion-show-for-hindu-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan Convicts Perform Fashion Show for Hindu Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/locales\/newsArticle.jsp;:404cf1ed:12b88c543cd1acf9?type=entertainmentNews&#038;locale=en_IN&#038;storyID=4519107\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>NAIROBI, KENYA, March 8, 2004: The catwalk fashions of Paris and Milan came to a women&#8217;s prison in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Monday, where the inmates celebrated International Women&#8217;s Day by turning on the style. Prisoners dressed in traditional and contemporary outfits sashayed across a courtyard at Langata Women&#8217;s Prison as rock music played in the background and scores of fellow inmates clapped and cheered. International Women&#8217;s Day is marked on March 8 by women&#8217;s groups around the world to highlight their struggle for the rights of women in society. &#8220;The girls really enjoyed it so much,&#8221; show coordinator and convicted drug trafficker Judith Akinyi told Reuters. &#8220;It gave them a chance to show their creative side.&#8221; Most of the items worn by the models were made by the inmates themselves in the prison workshops.<BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nThe jail, which holds some 600 convict and remand prisoners &#8212; and about 50 of their children &#8212; staged the event to mark a visit by members of the Hindu Council of Kenya and the Prisoners Care Programme, a Kenyan NGO that runs inmate rehabilitation projects.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceNAIROBI, KENYA, March 8, 2004: The catwalk fashions of Paris and Milan came to a women&#8217;s prison in the Kenyan,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}