Students' FGM app earns Kisumu Girls global recognition

Five high school students from Kisumu Girls have won recognition after inventing a mobile application aimed at helping the fight against Female Genital MutilationIvy Akinyi, 16 and Macrine Akinyi, 15 both in Form Two and their Form Four colleagues Purity Achieng, Synthia Auma and Stacey Adhiambo have won a chance to pitch a business plan for the application at the Technovation World Pitch Summit in San Francisco in August.

The five progressed to the global platform after winning the Africa Technovation Challenge, bagging Sh1 million to help them finesse the software dubbed iCut before presenting it to the world.