sions in a shelter run by josephine's organization. girls foundation. rosellas father was sentenced to a year in prison the husband disappeared rosie and the other young women can't leave the shelter because they're in danger of being married off marriage is profitable for the woman's family to receive seven cows as dowry for a bride's. day rather than. the students are getting extra tuition jaring vacation they have catching up to do because they started school so late nine zero zero didn't even know how to hold a pen now she's the best in the class. that didn't suggest i've never been. an end of the class of zero seven that yes they'd like these that request say didn't even know outright they didn't speak.

only mother than that they. let. me she showed me how to sleep and he started. this e-mail provides me with. all the young women here have had experiences similar to reseal as sexual abuse genital mutilation many a traumatized. you know when you know you'll learn sometimes you need fuel sometimes making coffee and even making. you feel a little he had an i phone i knew feeling it in was come to that i just go for my last friend and shelley hack and we left and then into eden then i feel happy so that's why i play on my mind all the despite their limited resources staff members at the some brew girl's foundation do their best to help boost the girl's self-confidence using. role play for example.

here rosina is safe and can sometimes remember what it's like to be carefree. the one who is my reads he hasn't heard about the shelter for girls like herself she and her friends only know their traditional life. the problem with. mommy all the stories about who are deadly boring. there is much more interesting. why not my beads i like to go to festivals and i like taking care of animals.

in any case she says it's too late for her to start school every t's mother sees the advantages of both ways of life but after the world is changing. personally i prefer ricci's way of life. but i think young women who've gone to school can get further in life. that's my girlfriend's daughters have even built around a modern house. than another woman we have on the floor. and what does she say about female circumcision and the pain it causes the girls i don't know that it's terrible it's like torture you should tell that to the world you can say that in your television report. but it's part of our life you just might not. give them up whether there is a disgrace for a girl not to be circumcised. that was i'm looking forward to it was with me so.

josephine cool a.s.'s that helping individual girls isn't enough the traditions themselves must change that's why she's called this meeting both men and women are here many people are not aware that kenyan law forbids their traditional practices a lawyer informs them that female genital mutilation sex with minors and marriage under eighteen a forbidden in kenya that's new to many in the audience. actually most of them don't even understand. that they voted for it but they didn't know what it was but now it's in place we don't know what is in the constitution so i know one of the lessons today was like do you understand where the incision think. that the constitution should be changed this older man complains he says only a circumcised woman is a real woman the man around his side the women oppose him. and yet you know

if you get it we've suffered long enough one woman says circumcision is bad for our girls it has to stop. more it was going to be there. because you're best at whatever they keep doing it even in high gear if though they could bring it to me that i left that. day for me and you're trying to create. me feel like everyone gets part you still been arrested so the respects culture the same type it deals stopping the hum from the culture. that's not as easy as it sounds. these two sambo morons jeffrey lace it and my own letter already have recently reached marriageable age guru men may only marry after they've taken part in a ceremony that makes them young elders most of them are over thirty at that point

. but the two friends have come to the market to buy snuff. but only when it's a stimulant we always have it with us to seduce girls we meet along the way. for our own goals. but they're also picking out a goat for a ceremony in the evening. even if it was a little bit more bill bell says most of the animal together with their male friends a lot of i guess but. when the rains come for somebody to prepare for their big celebrations including

weddings. soon there'll be plenty of food for both animals and people. think that. most of all that joseph and her coworkers traveled tirelessly to reach and educate women always with the goal of protecting young girls from genital mutilation and sexual abuse at the community minions with two or more. good attorneys and well moments today they're again accompanied by the lawyer who informs the women that the kenyan constitution bans sex with minors and female genital mutilation including aiding the practice

what we do is going to all the women here have experienced f.p.m. and they know who practices it and where. are they are worried the lawyer jokes we're not going to arrest you will now. i think that was patience and humor josephine starts with the fundamentals she shows diagrams of the female and male genitals and again and again she tells the women that they have rights. to. procreation least. in the mainland it's never in the. if they can just have sex but mostly women he. was not. and then she explains what genital mutilation does to the female sex organs how it can cause complications during childbirth what happens when the vagina is seven up

. some of these women may be understanding for the first time what is being done to them.