trippin’

A portrait of a true warrior.

This Maasai woman is one of the members of a womens group in Kenya, who are trying to establish alternative rite of passage for Maasai girls instead of female circumcision - or actually female genital cutting. I reported so many nasty cases, where girls as young as 7 were cutted with dirty blades, sometimes a piece of glass, then stiched together somehow and some time later basicly got raped by their husbands - aged 30-40, even more. The girls quite often suffer for serious pain every time they even take one step, and you can guess who does all the hard work in the house.