https://www.peacetalks.net/pt/josephine-kulea/. — Josephine Kulea

"We were bundled outside by my mother, where we met a large crowd of women… there was not a single man in sight. I knew what was coming"

"FGM is practiced in my community as a rite of passage to womanhood and accounts for 97 percent of Kenya’s FGM cases. This is why I decided to rescue young girls from early marriages and the cut and return them to school"

"I was eleven when we were woken up at around 6 a.m. by noises outside,” she said. “The previous day we had learned that my older sister was to be married to a 50-year-old man who had paid two cows as dowry"

"We were stripped naked, that is when I knew I was also being married off to someone… They poured very cold water on us to ease the pain of the process"

"My sister let out a terrifying scream that made my flesh crawl. She was bleeding out of control. They tried to apply traditional herbs to the wound but this did not stop the bleeding, it was during that confusion that I made my escape to a relative"

"If girls go to school, we can have so many breakthroughs for girls success and we can also stop mostly these harmful cultural practices"