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Lesotho: Boys Quit School to Become Men

A lack of legislation stipulating a minimum age at which boys can attend an initiation school and be circumcised has seen boys as young as 12 dropping out of school and heading for the mountains.
UNICEF

In Lesotho, a boy embraces his grandmother in their home in a village on the outskirts of Maseru.

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