RESCUE 10,000 KENYAN GIRLS AT RISK OF HORRIFIC FGM

Female Genital Mutilation continues in kenya even though the practice has been declared illegal in Kenya. The practice is currently being perpertrated by private practitioners who perform the operations in secret with the cooperation of the victim and their parents, usually the mother of the girl.

Cherish Others Organisation Kenya embarked on an aggressive campaign to sensitise school pupils on the harmfulness of FGM. Eight schools were reached and a total of three hundred and forty two pupils were reached in Trans Mara. The pupils expressed shock and surprise when they learnt how FGM operations were carried out and the negative effects of the practice and were even more shocked when they saw some of the instruments that were used for genital cutting. The pupils got to learn of the upcoming Alternative Rites of Passage program scheduled for April 8th to 12th and registered to be included in the session.

During the period under review home visits were made to homes with girls who were at risk of being put through FGM. Twenty six homes were visited and fifteen girls were identified who would be taken for the alternative rites of passage seminar scheduled for April 2015. The parents of the girls were sensitised about the harmfulness of the practice and therefore agreed to let the girls participate in the seminar, a positive move.

A women's seminar was held which reached out to twenty five women and educated them on the process involved, effects and that not all women in the world went through FGM, yet they were successfully fulfiling their roles as women in the societies that they came from.

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