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Thanks to the leadership of communities, more than 17,000 girls in Kenya and Tanzania have gone through Alternative Rites of Passage without the cut. And, they continue with education.
It began in the middle of the night - twenty years ago, in Kimana, the Maasai village in Kenya where I was born. The village where my parents died and I was raised by my grandfather. He is in elder in our community - a very respected man. His name is Ole Sing’aru. But that night my sister Soila and I ran away from him. We snuck out of our house and climbed a tree to hide ourselves. Why? Because we feared an age-old ritual called ‘the cut’. For centuries, ‘the cut’ had been part of our community. It means that girls are undergoing female genital mutilation or cutting at age 8, 9
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Unpacking the journey to self reliance (J2SR)
“As we listen to some of the most thoughtful voices around the world, over and over again we hear the need to be independent, the need to be self-reliant. That’s the spirit that has led USAID to craft a framework we call the Journey to self-reliance” Mark Green Under the leadership of Administrator Mark Green, the United States Agency of International Development embarked on the journey to self-reliance (J2SR) with the aim of ending the need for foreign assistance and fostering self-reliant communities. The self - reliance theory of change is anchored on two mutual factors
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