Maasai seeking to end female genital mutilation

Maasai seeking to end female genital mutilation- The Star

Written by Sapa-AFP | 17 October 11

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Name of story: Maasai seeking to end female genital mutilation

Name of journalists: Sapa-AFP

Name of publication: The Star

Date: 06 October 2011

Country: South Africa

Theme: Young women, culture and tradition, health

Skills: Perspective, sources

Genre: News

GEM classification: Gender aware

A small church house shelters a dozen Masaai girls escaping female circumcision and early marriages, age-old customs of the Kenyan tribe now frayed by health risks and new laws. While Masaai elders strongly defend their culture, some men have turned their backs on it, and in the town of Narok, west of the capital Nairobi, they have opened a church-run centre to rescue girls from circumcision

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