Anti-FGM app’s developers win continental award

Fight against female circumcision once again gets justice!

A group of Kenyan school girls will be honored with a continental award next week for their overwhelming invention of a mobile app that will help fight and bring awareness against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

On top of the award, the students of Kisumu Girls High School will also receive a prize money of Sh 2.5 million for such invention. The girls (named Macrine Otieno, Ivy Akiny, Stacy Owino, Synthia Otieno and Purity Achieng) will be honored at a ceremony in Abuja, Nigeria.

“The girls were selected out of several dozen nominees, for innovation of the mobile application called I-cut,” Daily Trust African noted in a statement. The winners have been picked up under the leadership of Botswana's former President Festus Mogae.