By MEF | MEF
During this period, we continued with our men engagement activities across the five counties of Kajiado, Samburu, Meru, Tharaka Nithi and Wajir. Our trained male champions were supported to conduct under-the-tree dialogues with other men and boys in the villages as part of our efforts to build a strong movement of enlightened men and boys actively advocating for elimination of FGM and child marriage in their communities.
Notable changes include ackowledgement by elders in Kajiado that indeed they were wrong to allow girls undergo FGM, and their resolve to hold series of meetings with young morans who will be next in-line to take up community cultural leadership position, with the goal of urging them to drop FGM in totality which for long has been disguised as a Maasai culture. This engagement requires our support and we appeal to all who wish to support elders in Kajiado to hold meetings with young men and morans who are next in-line to be cultural elders, to correct their mistake and urge them to drop FGM as a Maasai culture.
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