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Revision as of 13:24, 18 May 2023
| Organization | Global Roots |
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| Region | Afghanistan |
| Website | Website |
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| ProjectLeader | Rick Montgomery |
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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.
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
Project Gallery
The leaders of our outreach program
2021 outreach session
Mary and Nelly at our safe house
Sarah and Naomi at our safe house
Mary K and Naomi
Naomi telling us her story
Naomi in her new boarding school uniform
Mary paying boarding school fees
Mary seeing Naomi off on first day of school
Nelly at her boarding school
