A useful reminder from Brookings Institute that laws alone will not improve the uptake of education for girls. We must engage parents (in patriarchal societies, particularly individual fathers), elders, community and spiritual leaders. Brookings link
Give me shelter – South Sudan
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In educating a girl, you educate a nation.
The bargain done with her father by the first Maasai PhD graduate, Kakenya Ntaiya, was unfair and brutal, but contains a hidden lesson that does not seem to have had much air-time. Preteen Kakenya "agreed" to traditional Maasai genital mutilation, in return for being allowed to continue her education. (1) The lesson is that in patriarchal societies…
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