Githae Githinji: commitment

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…Problems with children? You deal with those, or not so much? In form of children, yes, we normally do, because in our group as men, we initiate small boys from childhood to adulthood. We circumcise. When you reach the age, we have groupings where we circumcise all Kikuyu boys. Kikuyu, Embu, boys from Meru. GEMA, that is our community. We call it GEMA community, the group of that community. We do have groups where we have our own doctors, qualified doctors. Let’s say, like last year, we had one in Githunguri, here in Githunguri Primary School. That is where we were. We had 350 boys whom we initiated. We help them, we call them, we talk with them, tell them the rite of passage that one person is going [through], educate them, and after that, we stay with those boys for 10 days. 10 days?…

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