When girls take matters into their own hands

Earlier this week a story was reported in the media highlighting that over 100 girls in the Mara region of Tanzania had escaped to a safe camp after fleeing Female Genital Mutilation exercises back at their villages. As the story was running on BBCs radio news hour with interviewed local sources expressing optimism that the event pointed to gains being made in the fight against FMG it also dawned on me that for a long…

"When girls take matters into their own hands"

The Other Side of Freedom

So our new guest blogger talked about freedom last and I got to admit I really enjoyed it. It was sassy and interesting, it definitely gave us a new perspective to freedom. Reading through it gave me inspiration for this article. Freedom has always been a big part of what every teenager wants after all we are becoming adults and adults are free . However, have you ever stopped and thought about it ? Why…

"The Other Side of Freedom"