Name: TEDx】我在肯亞創辦女子學校的歷程。Kakenya Ntaiya在2012年TEDxMidAtlantic上的演講。 (【TEDx】My journey to start a school for girls in Kenya: Kakenya Ntaiya at TEDxMidAtlantic 2012)
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These people are tall, they jump high, they wear red and they kill lions.

You might be wondering, who are those people?

The Maasais, the boys are brought up to be warriors,

When I was five years old, I found out that I was engaged,

to be married as soon as I reach puberty.

they constantly reminded me  that, "Your husband just passed by."

And everything I had to do from that moment

was to prepare me to be  a perfect woman at the age of 12.

milking the cows, sweeping the house, cooking for my siblings,

I did everything that I needed to do, to become a perfect wife

I went to school not because the Maasai women all go to school.

It's because my mother  was denied an eduction

and she constantly reminded me and my siblings that,

she never wanted us  to live the life she was living.

My father worked  as a policemen in the city,

he came home once a year, we didn't see him for sometimes even 2 years.

And whenever he came home,  it was a different case.

My mother worked hard in the farm  to grow crop so that we can eat,

she read the cows and the goats  so that she can care for us.

But when my father came, he would sell the cows,

and he went and drank  with his friends in the bars.

Becasue my mother a women,  she was not allowed to own any property

anyway, belonged to my father so he had the right.

And if my mother ever questioned him,  he'd beat her, abused her

When I went to school, I had a dream,  I wanted to become a teacher.

Teachers looked nice, they wear  nice dresses, high-heeled shoes --

I found later that they were  uncomfortable, but I admired it.

But most of all, the teacher  was just writing on the board --

compared to what I was doing at the farm,  so I wanted to become a teacher.

I worked hard in school,  but when I was an eight grader,

In our tradition, there's a ceremony that girls have to undergo to become a woman.

And it's a right of passage to womanhood.

And then I was just finishing my eight grade

and that was a transition  for me to go to higschool,

Once I go through this tradtion  I was going to become a wife.

Well, my dream of becoming a teacher  will not come to pass.

So I had to come up with a plan  to figure these things out.

I talked to my father, I did something that most girls have never done.

I told my father, I will only go through this  ceremony if you'l let me go back to school.

The reason why, if I ran away, my father will  have a stigma, people will be calling him,

"The father of that girl who  didn't go through the ceremony."

It was a shameful thing for him  to carry the rest of his life.

So he figured out -- well, he said, "OK, you'll go to school after the ceremony."

I did. The ceremony happenned, it's a whole week long of excitments.

And the day before  the actual ceremony happens,

we were dancing, having exceitments and through all the night, we did not sleep --

The actual day came  and we walked out of the house

as we danced and danced  and we walked out of the courtyard

and there were a bunch of people waiting,  they were all in a circle.

And as we dance and dance,  and we approach this circle of women --

men, women, children everybody was there.

There was a women sitting in the middle of it

and I was the first, there were my sisters  and a couple of other girls.

As I approach her, she looked at me  and I sat down and I opened my legs.

As I opened my leg, another women came,  and this women was carrying a knife.

And a she carried the knife she walked towards  me, and she held my clitoris, and she cut it off.

After bleeding for a while,  I fainted there after.

It's something that so many girls -- I'm lucky I never died, but many die.

It's practice with no anaesthesia,  it's a rusty old knife

I was lucky because one -- also, my mom did  something that most women don't do

three days later,  after everybody has left the home

We were taken care of, three weeks later  I was healed and I was back in high school.

so that I can make a difference in my family.

Well, while I was in high school,  something happened,

I met another young gentlemen from our village  who had been to the university of Oregon.

This man was wearing  a white T-shirt, jeans, a camera,

white sneakers -- and I'm talking about white sneakers.

There's something about clothes I think and shoes. (Laughter)

And this was in a village  that didn't even have paved roads,

I told him, "I want to go to where you are,"  because this man looked very happy

"Well, what do you mean you want to go,  don't you have a husband waiting for you?"

And I told him, "Don't worry about that part, just tell me how to get there."

TEDx】我在肯亞創辦女子學校的歷程。Kakenya Ntaiya在2012年TEDxMidAtlantic上的演講。 (【TEDx】My journey to start a school for girls in Kenya: Kakenya Ntaiya at TEDxMidAtlantic 2012)

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TEDx】我在肯亞創辦女子學校的歷程。Kakenya Ntaiya在2012年TEDxMidAtlantic上的演講。 (【TEDx】My journey to start a school for girls in Kenya: Kakenya Ntaiya at TEDxMidAtlantic 2012)

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