Kampala — Helen Baleke took up boxing at 16, after she was attacked by a man in Kampala's Katanga slum. But the beating turned her into what she is today - one of only several female Ugandan amateur boxers.
"He beat me so bad that I started crying and bleeding from the nose," Baleke tells IPS, speaking through an interpreter in the local Luganda language from a mud shack in Katanga which she shares with 23 family members.
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