Maasai Girls centre seeks to end FGM

A small church house shelters about a dozen Maasai girls escaping female circumcision and early marriage, age-old customs of the Kenyan tribe now frayed by health risks and new laws. While Maasai elders strongly defend their culture, some men have turned their backs on it, and in the town of Narok, to the west of the capital Nairobi, they have opened a church-run centre to rescue girls from circumcision. However, the running of the Hope for the Maasai Girls centre set up in 2007 has not been smooth, as angry men have often threatened its founders and some parents disowned their daughters after they went there. READ ON: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5golzQBndJOvy4b0XFb-FysHOmdWA?docId=CNG.d9e59580b60b0632b53dfe695f1c18f0.461

A small church house shelters about a dozen Maasai girls escaping female circumcision and early marriage, age-old customs of the Kenyan tribe now frayed by health risks and new laws. VIDEO:
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