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Underage girls in Maasai 'sold' as payment for family debts

James Nanga, manager of Maasai Development Project Education Centre, a children's home within Mara in Narok West addressing girls rescued from harmful cultural practices. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Immediately after her father was buried, a meeting was set up at *Naipanoi's home in Narok.

Besides losing her father, the sole provider in her family, Naipanoi was about to lose her innocence and childhood to cultural diehards.

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