Cut off: Where being a girl is a tough call even in the new year

The outside of a class at Morpus Primary School. It serves as a rescue centre where over 400 girls running away from forced marriages and female genital mutilation have been sheltered since 2003. [Maxwell Agwanda, Standard]

There is nowhere to hide. Not even in the shadow of misty blue mountains. Morpus is not tall enough. Right at the foot of the gigantic hill, nestles a school named after it, where the Noah’s Ark appears to have outlived its usefulness.

The ark’s door is secured with a piece of rusted binding wire but there is nothing to steal for local bandits whose standard weapon is AK 47 assault rifle.