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Personal Stories
Girl Rescued from FGM
Sarafina is a teenager and goes to a boarding school in Wamba, Kenya. She is like many teen girls around the world: she enjoys school, loves to study Social Studies and English, and has dreams to be a doctor. However, unlike most other teenagers, Sarafina and the other girls in her community face the very real issues of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and Child, Early and Forced Marriages (CEFM). Wamba is home to the pastoralist Samburu tribe which has a higher prevalence rate of CEFM at 38%, compared to the national average of 23% in Kenya. CEFM and FGM/C are linked in Samburu cu
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Community Voices – Amref Alternative Rite of Passage to FGM
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Amref Community-Led Alternative Rite of Passage Policy Brief
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Blog
My Amazing Experience at Women Deliver 2019
By Diram Duba I travelled to Vancouver, Canada for the first time to attend the Women Deliver Conference, the world’s largest conference on gender equality that brought together government officials, human rights activists, academics, media and advocacy organisations from around the world between June 2 and June 6, 2019. There were at least 8,000 participants at this conference. End FGM/C Pre-Conference [caption id="attachment_654" align="alignright" width="405"]
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