FGM is gruesome impediment to empowerment of women

In a significant shift from tradition, Maasai elders in Loitoktok, in Kenya’s Kajiado County, girls are choosingto forgo traditional FGM as a rite of initiation into womanhood. Photo Credit: Amref Africa

On February 6, 2017, the world marked the 14th International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). 

Consider this, approximately 200 million girls and women alive today globally, have undergone some form of FGM.