COVERED IN SHAME
Majority of those young Somali women you see around Nairobi are covered in the shame of having had their vaginal opening sewn or sealed after FGM—known as Type III FGM/infibulation.
There’s doctor in Kilimani who charges upwards of Kshs.250,000 for a procedure called deinfibulation that surgically opens the scar tissue that seals or severely narrows the vaginal entrance after Type III FGM