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27-Year-Old Woman Saves 15,000 Girls From Genital Mutilation

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27-Year-Old Woman Saves 15,000 Girls From Genital Mutilation

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When Nice Nailantei Leng’ete was age 8, she hid with her sister in a tree to escape female genital mutilation (FGM)–a common practice in her culture of cutting a young girl’s genitals without anesthesia. Now, almost 20 years later, Leng’ete has helped nearly 15,000 girls escape “the cut” and the child marriage that usually follows soon after.

This year she was honored for her work by being named one of Time’s most influential people, and she has given a TEDx talk about her experience. Yahoo News explains that it has been a hard-fought battle for Leng’ete, particularly in the male-dominated Maasai community where she grew up, but Leng’ete has helped introduce alternative rites of passage to the community and is working…

Please read original article 27-Year-Old Woman Saves 15,000 Girls From Genital Mutilation posted on Healthy Black Girls on 3 August 2018 | 12:23 am —

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