Turning Kenyan Child Brides into Scholars
An award-winning program in Kenya substitutes the traditional practice of "booking" girls for marriage with a new idea of "booking" them to attend school instead. The Maasai people are a pastoral tribe, who subscribe to the practice of Esaiyata, or "booking" their daughters for marriage-often before they are born. The Christian Children's Fund is supporting a program that uses the familiar process of offering a dowry to a girl's father (in the form of donated livestock and gifts) in order to secure the girl's release to school. In essence, the school becomes the child's "husband" and she is sent to live and study with other girls in the boarding school.
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http://www.christianchildrensfund.org/content.aspx?id=792
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