35 pupils turn school into their home to evade the cut

Some of the 35 girls at Tangulbei Primary school in Tiaty sub-county who have been forced to stay at the school to evade Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) as other pupils break for August holiday. [Kipsang Joseph/Standard]

Tangulbei Day and Boarding Primary School in Tiaty is not your ordinary kind of institution.

Besides executing its core function of imparting knowledge and life skills to learners, the school also shelters 35 girls who have made it their refuge.