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I live with my husband and work in Mombasa. I was born and grew up in Bomet, my parents provided me with education that I needed to excel and I went through the primary and joined secondary level successful, After finishing my secondary level I joined college to get skills and now working and pursuing my bachelor in degree of commerce. I was lucky that I did not have to follow the tradition of FGM and early marriage. I come from a community that girl child education is not still not common.Poverty and backward cultural practices have continued to harden the quest for the girl child to access education. Deep in our African culture, girls are taken to be a source of wealth for the family because once they got a suitor; they are “sold off” for marriage, thereby giving the family some wealth through bride price. Once married off, the girl is meant to be a homemaker and her duty is to tend to household chores and to bring up a family.Some parents justify the denial of girls of their right to education to prevent t