10 year-old girl dies from FGM

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I got this e-mail update about what's going on in Kenya as part of my membership in the vday organization: On August 18 in the tiny village of Narasura in the Rift Valley, A 10 year-old girl died from Female Genital Mutilation. At 5 that morning she was cut. By 10, she had bled to death. Her family wrapped her body in a sheet and secretly burried it a few yards from their huts. By that afternoon, there was no evidence of the crime. If it were not for the network of conscience that Agnes Pareyio has woven into the Maasai community, this child's death would have gone unnoticed. But an anonymous "informer" called her on the morning of the ceremony, in time for he to send one of her collaborators and an officer of the law to the hasty funeral. As a result, for the first time in Maasi history, a circumsiser has been arrested. V-day is committed to continuing to work to end Female GEnital Mutilation. This child's death is a reminder that the work is far from done. Girls are still being cut in the Rift Valley and many other places in the world. Some are dying. All are scarred for life. Agnes Pareyio is one of the leading activists of the V-day movement. Pleas join us in continuing to support her work to change the fate of Maasi girls and stop FGM worldwide. http://www.vday.org