By RUTH KONCHELLAH | DIRECTOR
An Empowerment seminar for thirty women was conducted in Kilgoris town so that they could be educated on FGM and its effects on its victims.
The women participated fully with enthusiasm and gave their contribution without hesitation.
Conclusions were made as follows;
1. Traditional Ceremonies for instance moranism encouraged young men to marry girls who have been put through FGM.
2. Traditional Birth attendants insisted on circumcising women who are not circumcised while giving birth.
3. Circumcisers insist that they also earn from doing the genital cutting
4. Polygamy:- Other women in the marriage ostracised the uncircumcised girl.
5. Early Marriages implied that the family acquires wealth at minimal cost of upbringing the child.
6. Poverty: - Parents said they did not have money to pay for the girls’ school fees.
7. Ignorance: Many of the community members did not have knowledge of better living. They did not know that girls were entitled to education and employment opportunities just as boys did.
Way Forward
The participants came up with the following as strategy for the anti FGM campaign
• Continuous sensitization
• Promote education for the girl child
• Emphasis on spiritual awakening, spiritual guidance among couples, and the youth
• Promote life skills education
• Economic Empowerment to reduce poverty- Income generating activities in our community so as to enable them pay school fees for their girls
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