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Impact of anti-FGM campaigns felt in schools

Musul Primary School headteacher Anita Lekorere talks to primary and secondary school girls over effects of Female Genital Mutilation at Kimanju in Laikipia North. [Jacinta Mutura, Standard]

Cases of girls dropping out of school have reduced following campaigns against female circumcision.

According to facilitators in peer training for girls in Kimanju village in Laikipia North, young girls and parents are abandoning the practice.

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