January 2026

“The Old Chains Are Breaking”: A Grandmother’s Witness to Change for Girls

“In my time, things were not easy for girls,” says Norkinegu Eliza Kimpai, a grandmother from the remote Maasai village of Emurutoto. “A man would not marry a girl who had not undergone the cut [female genital mutilation]. That was our tradition, and nobody questioned it. We went through the pain because that was the […]

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