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Where it all began
2005 at Helme Chase Maternity Unit in Kendal, Cumbria UK
Elderly Pokot Woman
This woman is a traditional birth attendant at one of our sensitisation/awareness events.
TBA's in training seminar
A reformed cutter
This woman announced during workshops that she is a cutter but will now abandon the practice due to what she has learnt.
More reformed cutters
These TBAs/cutters vowed to abandon cutting/FGM. They are pictured being blessed by the pastor during the final ceremony following their 3 day residential anti FGM training
A public abandonment ceremony
Reformed cutters during an abandonment ceremony where they symbolically lay down their knive
The Team on outreach
Preparing for a journey to bring the anti FGM campaign to another new remote village in the mountains.
Loading up for the journey
We hired motorbikes for some of the journey but then we would trek as there are no roads in the mountains.
The villagers
The villagers met us to carry much of the very heavy stuff, sacks of rice, maize etc.
Yours truly enjoying the hike
Up in the clouds!
Teaching session
Demonstrating with our anatomical model to show exactly what happens during FGM
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