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Pokot , Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Jane Cherop had a dream of becoming a pilot. However, forcing her to under Female Genital Mutilation-FGM, a practice that is common among the Pokot in Amudat district ruined her dream. “… I did not want anything that would make me bleed wasting my …

Amudat, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Tegla Chepolukuma was 13-years- old when her friends advised her to go for Female Genital cutting alias Female Genital Mutilation. She recalls how her peers kept counting the days to the D– day. “When that day reached I remember it was on Wednesday, my grandmother arrived …