 Kwa kwa kukosa kwa yei jus음u na kutimia laboriu, wa ta hibata niye yangatia kukose kwa krasto kya na kutimia operate. In dimwza,kinunisha ubonatia mawa kwa kwa maa kutimia opezi kwa maa kutimia iniia kutimia. Maa kubuniti kutimia maa kutimia kutimia. Mbiaqa na kamaan mawa kutimia kwa maa kutimia kwa maa kutimia, baya mbia za kikandwza mwiaqa waz bring a positive change to the society. I'm Mary Chacha, the last born in the family of seven. We are three girls and four boys. I'm from the Korean community, which is a Bantu speaking group. It is a small community of Kenya whereby our main culture is practice of FGM whereby the girl child does not have not been given that chance of knowing her rights. Okay, basically coming from where FGM is practiced, I have gone through, I have seen a lot happening. And through that I decided personally, yes I underwent FGM personally, I have that experience. I know how painful it is. And if you can't speak for yourself, I mean for me to speak that I don't want, no one will have had that voice. So I decided that even if it will not work, I have to raise that voice. That this thing is not right because it is taking away my right as a girl child. Because once I go for that FGM, I will not have that chance of reaching my dreams since they believe that once you go that FGM, you have become fully a woman. Mary through her community-based organization named Kuzadada, rescues girls from falling prey to female genital mutilation. Currently, I'm working with the Kuzadada community organization. It is an organization that I have started rescuing girls from the FGM. But I'm not only rescuing girls because I'm also, it is also involved with the women programs and also nurturing talents. And this organization came up due to the passion I had of working with the women and the community at large. I have this passion of working with the community because that's where my passion is since I was young and I'm happy that I'm engaged in a community-based organization which I started in 2018. And I'm happy it is working, although it does not have that much support. So most of the things that I'm doing, I'm doing from my pocket and just few friends that are supporting the project. I get a group of young girls from the age of 9, let me say, from the age of 9 and above. Because even the reason why I say above is you might find that there is a girl of 18 years who don't want to go for that FGM but she doesn't want, she doesn't have somebody to help out. So I have also have to venture in and help the girl. Because you find that even those who have been able to run away if they come back they will have to be taken by force even if you are in the university. So for me it is from 9 years and above. In a bid to have a glimpse of what female genital mutilation means Meritex a chance to elaborate while outlining the cones attached to it. FGM is the removal or cutting of the female genitalia which is carried out by the few selected traditional women and they are not medically proved by the government. Some of the challenges that these cut women normally go for example there is bleeding, some of the girls do bleed a lot and they might die so it causes death. Something else is during birth you might find that during giving birth a woman might feel there is a lot of pain during birth and it causes much problem and you might find that that woman can go for operation. You know once you undergo that thing you have already killed your dream it has already killed your dream because now you feel that ok you are being taught on how to handle a man during that process you are taught how to become a honest wife to your husband so already you know that now after this I am going for from this stage I am jumping to this stage. For starters she has been able to help a number of girls I have not risked much but the few maybe around I can say that eight girls and there are two in Kuala in Kuala county and there is a woman there that I have been able to open a business for the woman had seven children and no husband so I was able to help her to open a business and she is working on the business now and there is also a girl there that I am supporting with the pads every month I have to send her some money to buy the pads. We are now in the Jamaani region where I live and I have two children and I have two young women and they all work in schools and there are two kids and I have two children and they have two rescues and I have three children and I have two children and they are three She has no establishment to host the survivors. How does she operate? Working to the schools, giving out my phone number and passing information that this is what I'm doing, in case there is a problem, just reach out to me through this number. But I don't have a rescue center where I take the girls. I normally talk to my friends. So if there is that such case, I always call a friend, I tell her, there is this, I'm facing this, can you help out? Ya, and then we pick it from there. Financial support is key for successful projects. What about hers? Well, to be honest, I don't have any support, I don't have anyone supporting, it is just individual, it is just individual work. Like, I'm paying school fees for two girls in high school, and there is a boy who is doing computer right now, is an orphan boy, and I'm paying for him the fee, and also I'm staying with him, so for me, I think it is God's blessings, because I don't know, like we can work up, like today we don't have anything to eat, you see, my friend also don't have anything to eat, she has a family, so I also have to dig out, so I have to call my friends, you know, like, Kat, can you help me with this ABCD? Ya, come for food, come for unga, just like that, and then we are going to go, so for me, I told them, you know, whatever we get, we eat, if we lack, then you know that, we don't have anything. Besides our great initiatives, Mary is capable of many other things. I'm happy that I'm blessed with a talent also of beadwork, whereby I have been able to make some beadwork, not only in our country, but within, beyond our country, I had a group in Burundi where I had to teach some beadwork, and also soap making, so I'm proud of it. The future is always bright for those who fight to make it happen, what is in store for these great activists? I'm still working on reaching to more people, but there are some in Kibera who are willing to work with me, so like, now we are planning to do some santeri pads drive, I'm already donating some already in Kibera, I have done it, and I'm also targeting some like, 200 girls, I'm also planning to donate some to the villages, like Masailand, Bungoma, and Kuriya. So we are looking like 1000 pads, santeri pads, that we can deliver to the girls and talk to them, especially in this crucial moment that we receive so many complaints that there are so many girls who are being pregnant due to lack of pads, they are selling their body in order to get the pads, but what they don't know that once they get pregnant, how will they use the pads? Asked whether she thinks female genital mutilation will be wiped out at some point, this is her take. It is my hope and prayer that it will come to an end, especially now that, you know, especially now that I have talked to the men from my communities and I have put them, I have bring them together. So for me, what I don't want is the government to use the force because if you listen to the view from the village, they will tell you, this is our culture and there is no way we can devote it here, but if you go with another methods, you bring them together, you talk to them, so they are really willing to do away with it. If we follow the proper procedure, we can end it and it will end. Culture is meant to make us, not to break us. Culture is good, but if culture is not benefiting everyone, why should you celebrate it? Ni gependa kwa mpiawe gine wasikubali kufannu aiyo tohara kwa sababu. Takuja kwa duru na takuja kwa regret na ili maishaya ho yendele sowa wasikubali. na hwelfi agu siwatwa, hwe na wakama da wa ni mazubari ni mazubari ni jatani Onzi위, 8, 2, 1, 1, 2 niniwa kutua kusadaa da, inasu uchama na kusadaa daza,