Girls shine on the farm after escaping 'cut'

Girls from the House of Hope Rescue Center who were rescued from FGM and early at their Enkishon Farm.The rescue center is anticipating to grow surplus food for sale and for domestice use in the next five years. [PHOTOS:ROBERT KIPLAGAT/Standard].

In the outskirts of Narok town, lies a safe haven for teenage girls running away from backward cultural practices.

This quiet solace — House of Hope Rescue Centre — not only shelters desperate girls who have escaped from early marriage and female genital mutilation, but also has an admirable farm run and managed by the same girls.