"CHANGING TIME"

August is a month full of activities that us initiation and harvesting season for some regions. There was a missionary who had come to a certain community to spread Christianity to the people of this region. During this season or period girls and boys were preparing to be circumcised. The missionary name is called Revrend John Darwin. He was from the State of America to spread Christianity. He happen to interact with  the people of this community and he stood the culture of this community. There was one thing that he was happy with it; that is circumcision of girls.

    Not only John was a preacher but stopped the people from this act of Genital Mutilation in girls.

     There was three girls who took part in this act, that is Female Genital Mutilation, but one of them manged to escape the cut. He went to area chief and asked if it is right to have the cut: the area chief accepted. He moved to the doctor and the doctor said it was wrong because it was dangerous it could lead to death, and also spread of diseases.

      It becomes a lesson to all those people who circumcised girls, that is Female Genital Mutilation was disastrous.

Location: Shulaloa village,  KAKAMEGA SOUTH, KENYA