Happy New Year Greetings: Vol I, Issue I

JANUARY 2016
Vol I, issue I
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By Atieno OtienoMelanie Lidman

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Inside this issue

Dads News
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-What
is FGM?
Moms
News
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Kids News
According to the World Health

Organization, female genital mutilation
(also called female circumcision or
female genital cutting) is defined as any
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-The beginnings
- Light in Njoro,
Kiptangwanyi, Ogilgei
and Elburgon
-Meru anti FGM
- Our Centre (ALC)
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We wish to thank our partners,

benefactors, and all who supported
us for the past year to realize our
dream.
The year 2015 was a successful one
as we recorded an increase in
seminar requests from different
regions of the country. There were
so many activities that took place
and all were geared towards the
Nobel cause of termination of
female genital mutilation.
procedure that alters female genital organs

for non-medical reasons. This ranges
from removing part of the clitoris, to

removing part or all of the labia, to
infibulation, which means sewing the
vaginal opening together, only allowing
for the passage of bodily fluid.
Cultural reasons for FGM include
preserving a girl's virginity, controlling
her sexuality so she will not cheat on
her
husband,
and
promoting
characteristics like obedience and
passivity.
TERMINATION OF FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION
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MUTILATION
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Light in Njoro, Kiptangwanyi, Ogilgei

and Elburgon
I am the Light of the world;

Girls in Elburgon proclaim
during the graduation
ceremony. (Photo/Sr.Gladys)
Girls getting ready for

discussion in Elburgon
Parish (Photo/Sr.Gladys)
A handbook for use during

the seminars for Christian
initiation of girls
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After brainstorming sessions with

fellow professionals, including
psychologists, religious leaders and
social workers, Sr. Gachiri created
an alternative rite of passage
adapted for Christian adolescents,
along with a workbook for girls and
boys. She holds the Christian Rite
of Passage, or CROP, ceremonies in
August and December each year,
during school vacations, which are
the most popular times girls
undergo FGM.
Girls in Kiptangwanyi
The seminar involves 33 sessions

on topics that offer psychological,
emotional, mental and spiritual
teachings to the girls, with an aim
of giving them a smooth transition
to adulthood. There are also lectures
on marriage, biological changes
during
adolescence,
hygiene,
nutrition, HIV/AIDS, and drug and
alcohol abuse.Sr.Gachiri's extensive
field research has enabled her to
create seminars that capture the
traditional teachings of a certain
area combined with modern
knowledge. She has trained a staff
of 30 people to run these
workshops, which are always held Girls display their certificates after a successful
Seminar.
with the blessing of the local priest,
pastor or village chief.
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Meru county against FGM

In the year 2015, a woman was arrested for circumcising a girl in Kangeta,
Igembe Central. She was arrested after she was sought by the girls parent to
correct a cut gone wrong. And in September same year, police in Igembe
South arrested a 56-year-old woman for circumcising her one-and-half-yearold granddaughter. The grandmother is said to have been punishing her
daughter-in-law for not being circumcised. 10 women were also arrested in a
Young girls in fear of the FGM act
circumcision ceremony in Kithiino Village, Tharaka South.They were

arraigned in Marimanti Law Courts and charged with supporting the outlawed
practice and were released on a Sh100, 000 bond each.Ms Ikiara notes that the
vice has become so secretive hence the need to empower girls to resist the cut
even when it is being advanced by their parents. Njuri Ncheke County
Chairperson, Linus Kitheka, said that FGM offenders would first be
disciplined culturally before being taken to the police, this is how serious the
Njuri Ncheke is on FGM, he said. On its part, ODPPs anti-FGM team taught
both the girls and their parents on the FGM offences and penalties as
stipulated in the Prohibition of FGM Act 2011. (Nation/paper)
ABUDANT LIFE CENTRE
Abundant life centre is an expansion of Termination of Female Genital

Mutilation Project which seeks to scale up the intervention currently employed
TFGM
Loreto Sisters IBVM
Loreto Msongari, off
Muthangari Road
on the fight against Female Genital Mutilation in Kenya by training of trainers,

publishing and translating tools for TFGM. The construction of the Centre
commenced on 1st April 2014 with the hostel block and its almost coming to
Phone: 0721-532858
Phone: 0734-859269
Email:
ephigachiri@yahoo.co.uk
Email: info@stopfgm.co.ke
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completion. The construction of the temporary kitchen commenced in

December 2015 and is expected to be ready for use by April 2016.
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Abundant life centre in Progress
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JANUARY 2016

Happy New Year greetings.

Add a highlight from your

By Atieno OtienoMelanie Lidman

Inside this issue

According to the World Health

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We wish to thank our partners,

procedure that alters female genital organs

from removing part of the clitoris, to

TERMINATION OF FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION

TERMINATION OF FEMALE GENITAL

Light in Njoro, Kiptangwanyi, Ogilgei

I am the Light of the world;

Girls getting ready for

A handbook for use during

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After brainstorming sessions with

The seminar involves 33 sessions

TERMINATION OF FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION

Meru county against FGM

Young girls in fear of the FGM act

circumcision ceremony in Kithiino Village, Tharaka South.They were

Abundant life centre is an expansion of Termination of Female Genital

on the fight against Female Genital Mutilation in Kenya by training of trainers,

Copy right 2016

completion. The construction of the temporary kitchen commenced in

TERMINATION OF FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION

Abundant life centre in Progress

Copy right 2016

TERMINATION OF FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION

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