Muslim women break taboos navigating east London's waterways

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Naseema and her fellow paddlers are encouraging women from east London's less advantaged neighbourhoods to embrace water sports which have often felt inaccessible to ethnic minorities like them with stretched resources and limited leisure time. Instructor Naseema Begum says there is a "taboo" that prevents many Asian women and those wearing headscarves from taking part in water sports.

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