"“When we come together our voices are heard, today all of us in this room play a role in ending FGM in our communities.""

"I promised myself, on the day my vagina was mutilated, that I would never let another girl be mutilated."

"some things must change now if the Maasai people are to succeed in the future"

"the age-old practice of female circumcision is one of the traditions that have kept the tribe mired in deep poverty a…"

"In Narok district, or Maasailand, we have a very high dropout of girls from school"

"They drop out of school because their parents marry them off. After female circumcision, the girl is married off"

"being ready for marriage has always been more important for a young Maasai girl than staying in school. And to the gi…"

"All the clitoris go, the outer part of it and the inner part of it go"

"And then an old mom comes with her two dirty fingers to make sure there is nothing. It's only the bone that is left. …"