HEROIC 368 GIRLS RISK IT ALL TO SAVE ONE OF THEIR OWN WHO WAS MUTILATED AND THEN MARRIED OFF, TAKE A LOOK SEE THE HEROIC LEADER AND THE EMBARRASED MOTHER!!

More than 368 girls of a primary school in Narok South district yesterday stormed their colleague’s home after they learnt that she had been married off to a middle-aged man. The pupils of Aitong primary school, led by their headgirl Gladys Sairowua, forced the mother of the 14-year-old standard seven pupil to put on her daughter's school uniform and go to class.

The pupils were protesting the decision by the mother to marry off Sermetei Kipeen. The pupil's father was allegedly not aware or involved in the marriage negotiations. “We were very angry when we heard that our colleague has been married off. That is why we went for her mother. We wanted her to remain in school until she realises that she has to let her daughter continue with her education,” Sairowua said.

Sairowua said she and her fellow pupils decided to take the action to set example toother parents in the area who do not take the girl child education seriously. “She was a bright pupil and forcing her for early marriageis going to render her education useless,” she said. The headteacher John Sengeny said Sermetei disappeared from school last Tuesday for unknown reasons. He said when they followed up the matter at her home, they realised that marriage negotiations had already started and the girl had been taken into hiding across the border to Tanzania.

He said the girls had, together with education stakeholders, resolved to keep monitoring each other until they all complete primary school. "They have resolved to apply the same method to protect any girl who drops out of school due to early marriage or FGM," said Sengeny. The area education officer Ambolwa Obiri said there was a growing trend in the area where women organised for their daughters' early marriages without involving their husbands. “They organise for their daughters to become pregnant with the man oftheir choice that eventually leads to marriage,” said Obiri. Obiri said many people willing to sponsor the girls in school had been put off by the high dropout rate.

DARING: Aitong primary school headgirl Gladys Sairowua (L) speaks to the press at the school yesterday.

The mother of Sermetei Kipeen (C) with class teacher Julius Ngerechi in class at the school.

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FGM IS 100% AFRICAN LEADING DISATER WITH HALF OF THE CONTINENT PERFORMING THIS ATROCITY!! NOW CONTROVERSIAL ATTENTION SEEKERS EUROPEAN ORGANIZATIONS WANT TO BE IN THE LIMELIGHT UNDERPLAYING AFRICA AGAIN BY CLAIMING FGM IS NOT AN AFRICAN PROBLEM! SHAME BIG SHAME.

Yes it's a 101% to admit that Africa is the leading region with FGM being performed 98% in over 27 countries!, FGM is a huge problem in Africa so for those trying to down play Africa again and claiming FGM is not African problem take your propaganda somewhere else!!! Unless you have walked a mile in our shoes only then we can reason together in your findings!!, Shame on those European organizations trying to undermine the atrocity of FGM in Africa while this plague started as a sexual enslavement punishment in Egypt the days of Pharaoh and as a result hundreds bleed to death everyday, and over 8000 are mutilated everyday and at least 3 million every year:(, and hundreds of thousands of mortality rate:( in Africa alone!!. And you dare say it's not an African problem? Shame on you!! Why do people who have never lived it or know how it hurts like using the suffering of others to gain attention? are you control manupulating freaks?!
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Global Ambassador for Ending Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
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Lobbying for HR 2221:The Girl's Protection Act sponsored by Rep. Joseph Crowley and Rep. Mary Bono Mack. and S 1919 introduced by Senator Harry Reid,
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Hypocritical outdated findings by so called "experts" on psychological disoders associated with FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION! FGM VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN TRAUMATIZED!YOU DARE MOCK US?

I find it hypocritical that so called "experts" have now discovered FGM causes psychological trauma or mental disorder, and they just found out by studying Iraq's women. Hey I have been saying this for over a decade that FGM causes high level of psychological trauma associated with PTSD!! African women survivors of FGM they deal with PTSD too and this causes lots of suicide , psychiatric disorders, mental illnesses, I work with African refugees everyday and in every state we have records of at-least 10 women every month admitted with PTSD related complexes ! Africa is the highest leading with mortality rate over 500,000 women die every year giving birth:((!! Majority of them suffer PTSD and are Fgm victims:((!! . So to the so called experts your findings are outdated, wasting precious money and time trying to add water with a cup in the ocean!!, it's simple common sense e.g "if a young girl was held down and then her genitals mutilated then left in a dark hut for weeks , unable to urinate with infection, tell me will her life be ever the same again? Will she be able to recover psychologically again? Will she be traumatized for the rest of her life? "experts" go do some research on that and surprise me!!
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Mutilating parents and tradition mutilators from Kenya take hundreds of girl across the boarder in Tanzania to terrorize their genitals!!!

Kenyan parents determined to mutilate their daughters, despite the outlawing of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), are taking them across the border to Tanzania,
Traditional mutilators from Kenya’s Kuria community crossed into Tanzania to mutilate a number of girls aged between seven and 15 during last month’s mutilation season, the report said.

FGM is prohibited in Tanzania but the law is not effectively enforced.

“Nobody will marry my daughter in the community if she is not mutilated,” one father, Wario Chacha, said in the report.

“I do not want my family to be a laughing stock. My girl will have to be mutilated no matter how long it takes.”

His 10-year-old daughter was one of 400 girls taken by local non-governmental organisations to rescue centres to protect them from being mutilated.

One in three Kenyan women is mutilated, despite the practice being criminalised in the 2001 Children’s Act.

In September 2011, Kenya passed the FGM Act into law providing for up to seven years in jail for anyone who commits FGM.

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Lobbying for HR 2221:The Girl's Protection Act sponsored by Rep. Joseph Crowley and Rep. Mary Bono Mack. and S 1919 introduced by Senator Harry Reid,
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Martin Luther King Junior take on our silence to the evil around us like FGM.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Martin Luther King, Jr.
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PERFECT NOW WE REWARD PERPETRATORS AND FORGET THE VICTIMS!!!!!!

A Mutilator in West Pokot county was yesterday given a Sh40,000 cow for quitting the exercise. Cheposonjo Lokai Tarau who used to practice Female Genital Mutilation abandoned the job two years ago after being arrested several times. “l decided to leave the job two years ago since the money never assisted me at all,” she said. Speaking during the rewarding ceremony in Makutano, the Executive Director of Setat, Lillian Plapan appealed to the community to shun the practice saying it hinders girls from accessing quality education.

Seriously? are you kidding me? how about taking her bloody buttocks to jail? what do the girls and woman who have suffered in her arms get?,fistula repair?,reconstructive surgery? ooh am sorry victims and survivors are not to be rewarded only the bloody mutilators ,!!! this sucks!!
How can you justify that you made a living out of mutilating female genitals and killing them? and then you get a reward? for real?. sick psycotics!!! So after they commit the most horrific unforgivable crimes we reward them?.

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Global Ambassador for Ending Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
Leading the Worldwide Campaign Against FGM
Lobbying for HR 2221:The Girl's Protection Act sponsored by Rep. Joseph Crowley and Rep. Mary Bono Mack. and S 1919 introduced by Senator Harry Reid,
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A 65 years old mutilator and a government official in Kenya on the run after mutilating 10 girls as young as 7 years old:((.

, After mutilation you become a wife:(!! (sexual slavery).

Police have launched a manhunt for a chief and an elderly woman in Tana River County who subjected 10 underage girls to Female Genital Mutilation late last year.

The Kalakacha location chief is said to have allowed the girls, who included his seven-year-old daughter, to be subjected to the outlawed rite.

The chief ran away after he discovered that police were looking for him.

The woman being sought by police is aged 65 and is suspected to have conducted the rite.

Tana River DO George Kamweru said it was unfortunate that the incident took place under the supervision of the local chief who was expected to protect the children.
On Wednesday, a group of women raided the home of the chief and found ten girls recuperating lying in a Manyatta.

This government official should be fired locked up and the 65 years old mutilator should be jailed with no mercy!!
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Lobbying for HR 2221:The Girl's Protection Act sponsored by Rep. Joseph Crowley and Rep. Mary Bono Mack. and S 1919 introduced by Senator Harry Reid,
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Though only one community practices FGM unlike her Neighbour Kenya, Uganda Declares War Against Female Genital Mutilation

In Africa, many repugnant cultures are still obtaining. A case in point is the Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), which many women in Uganda are beginning to treat as an affront on their dignity and Human rights. The good news for the Ugandan women is that this practice only affects one ethnic group, the Sabiny who live in the present day Sebei districts of eastern Uganda.

Civil Society organizations and women Activists in Uganda have over the years launched a spirited fight against FGM and a lot of resources have been used as incentives to make the local population shun FGM and success was being scored in this fight. FGM in these areas of Eastern Uganda is carried out as a ritual to initiate young girls into womanhood. It involves the cruel procedure of mutilating the genitals of young girls of 10 years and above, where the clitoris and vital parts of the vaginal opening are literally mutilated with sharp knives as the affected girls are cheered on by their mothers and fathers. This is followed up by some primitive sewing up of whatever has been left of the mutilation.

Effects of FGM on young Girls

Some of the girls bleed to death while others get permanent complications which later affect their child birth, putting not only their unborn babies at risk, but also themselves. This practice has made FGM a serious social and health problem for the Ugandan Sabiny.


The other serious social and health problem of FGM among the Sabiny is that the mutilations leave the women deprived of the sexual pleasures. Sex becomes purely a reproductive gesture completely devoid of pleasure. The irony of it all is that many Sabiny men have started marrying women from other ethnic backgrounds where FGM is not practiced just because they think; their women are not sexy enough.


Many of the young girls have also been infected during the act of FGM itself because most of the knives used for circumcision are generally reused on many other individuals without sterilization. The local FGM surgeons are mainly illiterate old women who know very little about how HIV spreads.
In December 2009, following the persistent demand by women activists supported by Civil Society Organizations working among the Sabiny, a bill was passed in the Ugandan parliament prohibiting the practice of FGM in Uganda. According to this bill, any person convicted for involvement in FGM acts will be jailed for up to 10 years. Where a FGM procedure results into death of the victim, the person involved would be jailed for life. The Bill also criminalizes parents who consent to FGM to be performed on their daughters.

Many parents consent to FGM because girls who have been mutilated attract a higher bride prize, so parents are lured by the expectation of bride wealth out of their young girls. Ugandans have warmly received the clump down on FGM. We hope other parts of the world join us in this repugnant cultural practice.

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Lobbying for HR 2221:The Girl's Protection Act sponsored by Rep. Joseph Crowley and Rep. Mary Bono Mack. and S 1919 introduced by Senator Harry Reid,
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A 10 year old girl in Kenya needs a international out cry , as she was mutilated and dragged ,she tried to run away but she is still lives in the same home where she was violated, she hopes she will continue with her education.

One girl's attempt to escape the knife proved futile after the grandmother hired young men, who dragged her to the circumciser. Here now is the story of her heart-wrenching ordeal.

I would like to know what the government of Kenya doing to get justice for this girl, Her grandmother , the mutilator and the young men who dragged this girl on the ground should be in Jail as we speak!!, This young baby girl needs medical attention ASAP!! She should not be married off to those rapists perverts sycopaths from hell!!She is begging the government atleast to let her continue with her education, she is so sad traumatized and scared, why would she be living in the same house with those heartless humans? ,My loyalty remains to the voiceless my heart bleeds, it is sad to listen this baby talk:(. I told you am tired with lips service and decorations of crapy laws that are never implemeted but are use to manipulate Donars to get more aid, Shame on you for deriving attention,fame and recognition through the pain and suffering of young girls and women!! how do you sleep at night? Pathetic!

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Assisting and advocating for U.S. refugees and women’s rights
Global Ambassador for Ending Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
Leading the Worldwide Campaign Against FGM
Lobbying for HR 2221:The Girl's Protection Act sponsored by Rep. Joseph Crowley and Rep. Mary Bono Mack. and S 1919 introduced by Senator Harry Reid,
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