Salwa, 35, has survived child marriage, three abusive husbands, crushing poverty and years of grinding conflict. But now she is building a new life for herself.

Monicah, 13, was astonished to learn that female genital mutilation (FGM) is not just an issue just within her community, in Kenya’s rural Samburu County. “I realized it we are not the only ones to practise FGM,” she said recently. “It is the whole world.”