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"“They will say, ‘We did this because we believed in it, but now we want to encourage girls to go back to school,”"
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Nice Nailantei Leng'ete
Nice Nailantei Leng'ete is a Kenyan human rights activist, advocating for alternative rite of passage (ARP) for girls in Africa and campaigning to stop female genital mutilation (FGM). In her work with Amref Health Africa, Leng'ete has saved an estimated 17,000 girls from undergoing genital mutilation and for many, childhood marriages. She was named by Time magazine in 2018 as one of the 100 most
"“They will say, ‘We did this because we believed in it, but now we want to encourage girls to go back to school,”"
"“This is about the countless girls, women, boys, men, and elders all over Kenya and Africa who dare today are working to bring female genital mutilation and child marriage to an end,”"