Kenya: Female-Genital-Mutilation-Free Zone Created

22 November 2012

TEN villages in Kuria East and Kuria West districts have signed a pact with the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Development and a local NGO to end female genital mutilation.

The model villages Matare, Komotobo, Kugitimo, Nyaroha and Maeta in Kuria East and Nyabikaye, Tarang'anya, Ikerege, Ngisiru and Nyabohanse in Kuria West are set to be FGM free zones according to the MoU.

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