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Josephine Kulea Quotes

Josephine Kulea (born 1980s) is a Kenyan women's rights campaigner. Rescued from female genital mutilation and forced marriage as a child, she has since set up the Samburu Girls Foundation, which has saved more than 1,000 girls from similar practices

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When you educate a man, you educate an individual. When you educate a woman, you educate a nation.

What to a foreigner may seem to be a gift from Santa Claus traumatizes a Samburu girl because for a Samburu girl that means sex at a young age with an old man

If girls go to school, we can have so many breakthroughs for girls' success and we can also stop mostly these harmful cultural practices

You see, when a girl is beaded by a relative, he is allowed to have sex with her, but if the girl conceives, which happens most of the time as no form of contraception is used, the baby is unwanted and is seen as a curse. It brings shame to the family.

Then I saw the old woman bend in to cut the private parts of my sister who was sitting legs apart

I was able to go to school though I always watched as my classmates dropped out of school to get married at the ages of nine to 11 years

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Josephine Kulea (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.