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Female Genital Mutilation Instruments
The Maasai tribe in Kenya for the most part continues to practice female genital mutilation on their girls between the ages of 8-14. Then they are married off to men that could possibly be the age of their grandfather in exchange for cows. The picture is of instruments used for FGM. This particular tin knife was used on girls in one village. While I was in Kenya a year ago doing clinics in Maasailand a young girl was circumcised (FGM) and had bled to death. The family had buried her, but the police had found out and they were there exhuming her body.
Help us educate both the young and the adult Maasai in Kenya. Education is the only way that that the girls will be free of this tradition.
6000 girls worldwide endure female genital mutilation daily!
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