However, the chants of Standard One pupils at Chemolingot Primary School offers consolation to the young girl as she enjoys the freedom of being in a classroom. “An old man from a neighbouring village had come to book me for marriage. “I did not want to be married early because it would shatter all my dreams,” she said. The primary school has become home for over 150 Pokot girls who have abandoned their homes to avoid circumcision and early marriage. Early this year, she was attacked by a group of men who had come to pick their ‘wife’, a 14-year-old girl.

Source: Standard Digital February 06, 2018 07:40 UTC