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Agnes Pareyio
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“When we come together our voices are heard, today all of us in this room play a role in ending FGM in our communities.”
Agnes Pareyio (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I promised myself, on the day my vagina was mutilated, that I would never let another girl be mutilated.”
Agnes Pareyio (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When women stand up and defend themselves, it works.”
Agnes Pareyio (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“some things must change now if the Maasai people are to succeed in the future”
Agnes Pareyio (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“the age-old practice of female circumcision is one of the traditions that have kept the tribe mired in deep poverty and social inequality”
Agnes Pareyio (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In Narok district, or Maasailand, we have a very high dropout of girls from school”
Agnes Pareyio (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They drop out of school because their parents marry them off. After female circumcision, the girl is married off”
Agnes Pareyio (born 1956) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kenyan Activist Makes Headway in Effort to End Female Genital Mutilation Among Massai Women - 2004-09-15,October 29, 2009,by Voanews
“being ready for marriage has always been more important for a young Maasai girl than staying in school. And to the girl and her family, being fit for marriage has traditionally meant only one thing - undergoing a brutal form of circumcision in which every part of the female genital is cut away, without anesthesia”
Agnes Pareyio (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the clitoris go, the outer part of it and the inner part of it go”
Agnes Pareyio (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And then an old mom comes with her two dirty fingers to make sure there is nothing. It's only the bone that is left. What they use to wash the wound is your urine”
Agnes Pareyio (born 1956) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kenyan Activist Makes Headway in Effort to End Female Genital Mutilation Among Massai Women - 2004-09-15,October 29, 2009,by Voanews