Day of the African Child

Girls Take Charge in the Fight to End Female Genital Mutilation

By Rural Women Peace Link
Some girls among the Pokot community in western Kenya are bravely defying what is considered cultural and traditional by refusing to be circumcised. More and more mothers, fathers and the women whose job is to do the cutting are beginning to support these girls’ right to bodily integrity.

OP-ED: In South Sudan, Ending Child Marriage Will Require a Comprehensive Approach

By Agnes Odhiambo
Akech B. loved to study and dreamed of becoming a nurse. But when she was 14, her uncle who was raising her forced her to leave school to marry a man Akech described as old and gray-haired. The man paid 75 cows as dowry for Akech. He was already married to another woman with whom he had several children. 

The Girl Who Couldn’t Herd Goats Now Saves Lives

By Miriam Gathigah
When she was nine years old, Jane Meriwas, a Samburu from the Kipsing Plains in Kenya’s Rift Valley region, was considered of no use by her father. After all, nine of his goats had been eaten by hyenas under her watch.


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