SAVED FROM DANGER

As a girl  growing up in a community where stereotypes from my fellow female bring down the efforts put by youths in fighting female genital mutilation was a nightmare.

In our Maasai community, the female cut was a need. One needed to be mutilated in order to be a complete female. 

I had reached the age of 15 years and I was supposed to pass through the cut then get married. On the eve of the act,I was terrified to the roots of my palate but since God was with me, I decided to run away from home. I walked for three days looking for both food and shelter.

luckily I met a woman called Zuena on my way who helped me. She took me and decided to take me to school. I narrated the ordeal  to her vividly, she was very very sorry and almost cried. 

Up to now i am in form three and hope to pass my exams next year. Zuena educated me right from class one. I feel humbled by what she did to me. My dream is to help Maasai girls in future by building an orphanage for them.

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