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During a recent visit to Nairobi, ANN once again visited Kajiado and talked with the center's director, Jacinta Loki. The interview, which follows, connects the center's mission to provide fear-free Christian education with the acute need to repair basic human rights, which are often overshadowed by traditional Masai beliefs and practices that leave scores of Masai girls without education and force them into early marriages.

Kenya: Young Masai Girls Given New Opportunity Even today, for many young Masai girls, basic human rights continue to be overshadowed by traditional beliefs and practices that leave so many of them with no education and forced into an early marriage--sometimes as young as age seven.