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Champion Against FGM and Child Marriage: Let The Tongue Be
Martha, 39-years-old, lives in Marsabit County in Kenya near the Ethiopian border. She is part of the Borana tribe. Martha is an influential woman in her community; she is a matron at the local primary school, a spiritual leader, and leads a Women’s Group where women discuss their issues, mentor children in school about drug abuse, and participate in income-generating activities such as selling chickens and renting guest houses. Most importantly, Martha is a champion to end female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and child marriage in her community. “I’m in a women’s group
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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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Fighting FGM/C and Child Marriage in Kenya: “My Experience is my Power”
Talaso Gababa is a member of the Gabra, a pastoral community-based in Marsabit County, Northern Kenya. For the last three years, she has worked with Amref Health Africa to bring an end to Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting (FGM/C) and Child, Early and Forced Marriage (CEFM) in her community. I was six years old when I was passed through “the cut” at the behest of my grandparents, who are very traditional. In my community, the cut is viewed as a rite of passage into womanhood: a precursor to marriage. When a girl is cut, word will spread from village to villag
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Moran Protecting His Community from Harmful Cultural Practices
Whether they find their spouse through arranged marriage like their parents, or on their own, morans (warriors) in the Samburu community are intransigent about one criterion for their future bride: she needs to be “cut”. The cut, also known as Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting (FGM/C), is a highly prevalent cultural practice within the Samburu, a nomadic pastoralist group living in Northern Kenya, with prevalence rate more than four times higher than the national average (90%1 compared to 21%). These clans consider FGM/C a crucial rite of passage to womanhood and have
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I No Longer Cut Girls: How a Circumciser Changed Her Mind About FGM/C
Doko Gutu, 54, is a former traditional circumciser from the Gabbra Community living in Maikona, Marsabit County, Northern Kenya. For more than 30 years, she performed female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C) on girls as young as seven. That was her only source of income, earning her $10 per girl, which was crucial for her survival in a region where the poverty rate is at 42.2%1. Since the practice has been outlawed in Kenya in 2011, Marsabit traditional circumcisers hide to avoid jail but the impact of their work is undisputable: 81% of the women aged 15–49 in the area have been cut by
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Moran Protecting His Community from Harmful Cultural Practices
Whether they find their spouse through arranged marriage like their parents, or on their own, morans (warriors) in the Samburu community are intransigent about one criterion for their future bride: she needs to be “cut”. The cut, also known as Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting (FGM/C), is a highly prevalent cultural practice within the Samburu, a nomadic pastoralist group living in Northern Kenya, with prevalence rate more than four times higher than the national average (90%1 compared to 21%). These clans consider FGM/C a crucial rite of passage to womanhood and have
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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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‘The Cut’ Scoops International Film Award
A film developed by beneficiaries of the Amref Dagoretti Child Protection and Development Centre has received an international film award. ‘The Cut’, a film about a young boy trying to save his younger sister from female genital mutilation (FGM) and a forced early marriage received the Award for Best Feature at the second edition of the Africa Diaspora Cinema Festival held in Florence, Italy from July 5 to 8, 2018. The Amref Health Africa in Kenya supported Dagoretti Film School partnered wi
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