CNN —When Joan Chelimo first met Rebecca Cheptegei, she remembers her fellow distance runner simply as a “normal, happy girl,” delighted to be competing at the Olympics.
The pair had started talking after competing in the women’s marathon in Paris last month, Chelimo representing Romania and Cheptegei running for Uganda.
On Friday, a day before Cheptegei’s funeral in eastern Uganda, Tirop’s Angels hosted a femicide walk in the Kenyan city of Eldoret.
There have been plenty of challenges along the way for those involved in Tirop’s Angels, particularly in the early days.
“The first time we started Tirop’s Angels, we had a lot of rejection,” says Chelimo.
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