Kenyan police have rescued hundreds of girls from female genital mutilationbefore ceremonies is often seen as a rite of passage into adulthood begins this increase tipoffs weekend.An community activists and local officials in remote regions where FGM is practiced more often already paying dividends, in accordance with the policies and the heads of the police.
Teachers in West Pokot play a role in enhancing the sustainability of the practice of girls back home after giving the term FGM, known locally as the '' cutting .In the last three weeks, I made eight arrests. Only arrests made in the whole of last year, 'said Hussein Alasow, deputy commissioner of the district Marakwet, one of the areas where FGM is widely practised.We also physically saved many, many girls. I saved a few hundred weeks, 'he added. 'The threat is not over, because we have long holidays ahead.Traditionally FGM ceremonies, in which all or part of the genitals of the child, is removed by the blade without anesthesia, held around the third week of December. He is one of the long school holidays, which take place in the new year, leaving time for the wounds of the past two weeks healOver girls in the Curia and Marakwet, operating these principles early reports were received community activists through social networks. Detailed records of children hospitalized with hardly conscious of the loss of blood and groups of girls being guided along the road about to be bathed before going through a painful ritual.Christine Nanji, the head of the investigative body of government anti-FGM, the police said, has worked closely with the community last year to maintain a dialogue with the leaders and local administrators, making it easier for them to know when and where FGM may be happening.They working to let people know that FGM is illegal. There is a growing awareness that must be reported and an increase in arrests and show what's going on. More people report 'Nanji said.The availability of alternative rites of passage into adulthood also has the effect, according to Hussein, Deputy County Commissioner. However, peer pressure and parental authority is still an enormous impact on both sides ceremony.Some visit schools have already taken steps to support his teaching about the benefits without FGM. Prisillah Kamau, director of the Tatar school for girls, is one of the most successful schools in West Pokot girls', resorted to his disciples before leaving for the holidays to refuse to cut. She gave the girls his personal mobile phone number and said to call if you need help.We school is not a good thing. Students who went to college and work, and they see no other way will not ... work, respect and meet freely, 'Kamau said. 'However, some people get a lot of pressure when you go home, to go through in West Pokot FGMKamau taught for three decades. She cites that she was not cut out to be one of the reasons he was able to build a secondary school, which works to educate women about the possibilities of the COPs available to them if they do not show FGM .In skills are valued in their communities, but you say, the skills of families' cows - cows may die, but an educated girl can make money over and over again again.Since Kamau took the number of school girls who have disappeared during the holidays 85-90 decreased year by year, one or two now.John Longanyapuo Senator from West Pokot and professor, said that more and more girls are not cut access to university places, because they get the time to concentrate on their studies are changing the way in which girls and women are valued in their communities.I County ' m proud of my work, which means that more and more girls to continue in education. Then they return to their communities with jobs and families. People see it and judged by their ability to ... now valued for their education ', Longanyapuo said.Even if these women are not cut out to return to school, 'says Kamau,' I can say that they were the Court. They will focus, not because after cutting, which were reserved for marriage.An uncircumcised girl will be able to go to school and go to university and be independent in my life.
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