FGM in Kenya: Rites of Womanhood
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Pokot girls walk towards their homes prior to the beginning of their circumcision ceremony

Pokot girls walk towards their homes prior to the beginning of their circumcision ceremony, about 80 kilometres from the town of Marigat in Baringo County, Kenya, October 16, 2014. The ceremony starts the evening before the girls get circumcised and involves women and elders of the community gathering together, singing and dancing through out the night in encouragement to the girls who together wait inside a hut for first light. The traditional practice of circumcision within the Pokot is a right of passage that marks the transition to womanhood and a requirement to marriage within the community.

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Pokot girls walk towards their homes prior to the beginning of their circumcision ceremony, about 80 kilometres from the town of Marigat in Baringo County, Kenya, October 16, 2014. The ceremony starts the evening before the girls get circumcised and involves women and elders of the community gathering together, singing and dancing through out the night in encouragement to the girls who together wait inside a hut for first light. The traditional practice of circumcision within the Pokot is a right of passage that marks the transition to womanhood and a requirement to marriage within the community.