Source: The Star
Former MP and new chair of the Anti-Female Genital Mutilation board Linah Kilimo attended the launch of a new campaign to fight the vice at the Panafric Hotel in Nairobi last Thursday evening. 

The new campaign dubbed "Agents of Change Unite against FGM" aims to change the cultural values that condone the practice. It will benefit 330,000 children in Tharaka Nithi County. The initiative is funded by the Dutch government and implemented by Plan Netherlands and the Association of European Parliamentarians with Africa (Awepa).

Speaking at the launch, Kilimo said the Kenyan government is committed to combating the problem.

"Kenya recently introduced legislation to outlaw the practice of FGM but the enforcement of the law has been a challenge due to entrenched cultural norms and practices that condone and perpetuate FGM," she said.

In attendance were Plan Kenya country director Carol Sherman, Awepa founder Dr Jan Nico Scholten, Dutch deputy ambassador to Kenya Marielle Geraedts and MPs Beatrice Nkatha, Dennitah Ghati and Cecily Mbarire.

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