I learned that it was against the law in Kenya.
I learned that I did not have to trade part of my body to get an education.
I had a right. And as we speak right now, three million girls in Africa are at risk of going through this mutilation.
I learned that my mom had a right to own property.
I learned that she did not have to be abused because she is a woman.
Those things made me angry. I wanted to do something.
As I went back, every time I went, I found that my neighbors' girls were getting married.
They were getting mutilated, and here, after I graduated from here, I worked at the U.N., I went back to school to get my graduate work, the constant cry of these girls was in my face.
I had to do something.
As I went back, I started talking to the men, to the village, and mothers, and I said, "I want to give back the way I had promised you that I would come back and help you. What do you need?"