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“When we come together our voices are heard, today all of us in this room play a role in ending FGM in our communities."

— Agnes Pareyio

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They drop out of school because their parents marry them off. After female circumcision, the girl is married off

"When women stand up and defend themselves, it works."

And then an old mom comes with her two dirty fingers to make sure there is nothing. It's only the bone that is left. What they use to wash the wound is your urine

"I promised myself, on the day my vagina was mutilated, that I would never let another girl be mutilated."

In Narok district, or Maasailand, we have a very high dropout of girls from school

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