When 31-year old Fred Mwansa decided to rape a helpless old woman in the village of Chakopo in Zambia’s Mpika District, he expected to get away with it. That was probably because he had never heard about the women of the WEAVE project and the work they were doing in the area. WEAVE, which stands for Women Empowered against Violence Everywhere, is a USAID-funded project conceived and implemented in Zambia by Nascent Solutions, a US non-profit. On February 20, 2012, Fred Mwansa assaulted and raped Theresa Bwalya (pictured in blue top) an 80-year old bedridden victim of a stroke that had left her partially paralyzed.