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|Description=Despite laws attempting to prevent it, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) remains a prevalent cultural practice among the Maasai in Kenya. Global Roots is helping to change this by conducting FGM "sensitization" outreach across the Maasai Mara and TransMara regions. We also operate a safe house that temporarily shelters threatened girls so that we can find them a safe boarding school or a relative who will contractually agree not to practice this horrific human rights crime.


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=Challenge=
Female genital mutilation (FGM) includes procedures that intentionally alter female genital organs for non-medical reasons and is a severe violation of the human rights of girls and women. In Africa, an estimated 92 million girls 10 years old and above have undergone FGM. Today, 93% of Maasai girls are mutilated. While many girls bleed to death after the procedure, those who survive FGM are subsequently sold by their parents into early marriages.

=Long-Term Impact=
To date, our programs have protected more than 80 young girls from FGM and provided thousands more with the legal info they need to protect themselves. It our is goal to end FGM among the Maasai in Kenya by 2025. Besides our hard-hitting outreach programs, we have a team that will rescue any girl who we learn is threatened. Because FGM is a federal offense, most families will immediately back down when they learn they are on our radar.

=References=

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|Problems=204316,203460
|Solutions=203463
|organization_id=44233
|Region=Kenya
|Resources=['http://www.globalroots.org', 'http://www.globalroots.org']
|scraped_url=https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/maasai-girls-gardens/
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|feature_image=File:255460_10151148281204738_1376342944_n_Large.jpg|Keeping our girls in school is priority #1
|images=[[File:ph_14394_217681.jpg|The leaders of our outreach program,File:ph_14394_217682.jpg|2021 outreach session,File:ph_14394_217683.jpg|Mary and Nelly at our safe house,File:853083c18b684d828071387c21fe22de_Large.jpg|Sarah and Naomi at our safe house,File:485af6ca0e044936aa2b754f77a8ed53_Large.jpg|Mary K and Naomi,File:Naomi_pleading_her_case_Large.jpg|Naomi telling us her story,File:Naomi_Large.jpeg|Naomi in her new boarding school uniform,File:Mary_paying_school_fees_Large.jpg|Mary paying boarding school fees,File:Naomi_and_Mary_Large.jpg|Mary seeing Naomi off on first day of school,File:366e81583a764ed196f6eb2b01bc77c4_Large.jpg|Nelly at her boarding school,]]
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