PAINFUL CIRCUMCISION TO TAITA BOYS

When School close for holiday Taita Taveta boys would not be found in their homes. Their circumcision was done in pain. They would leave home very early in the morning when it's still dark walking for about 30 km and would not come back for about two to three days when the circumcision celebration was over. Most boys would explain the danger of sharing some knife to their parents but they would not listen to them.
Fore skin would be pulled and chopped off at once. Many boys would bleed to death while other wounds would take a long time to be healed. The boys wold travel as far as reaching Mombasa to their relatives for safety measures of circumcision. They said that taking boys to hospital would be the best method of practising circumcision safely without contracting diseases such as HIV/AIDS and any other disease that can be transmitted through blood.

Location: Mombasa, Taita Taveta, Kenya