[1/2] “After escaping Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) from Kenema, Montserrado County a small village in Liberia packed with different traditional beliefs and the respect for observance of norms and other privileges that girls born to inhabitants of that town should do, the cause of life didn’t end but instead began from a different front of abuse. As a little girl growing up, all my parents ever wanted for me was to live in a pastoral home and be grounded with word of God through Christianity. Little did they know that their decision would change the life of their teenage daughter for good and make her a champion despite the weight that the outcome bears. In the Pastoral home, where the minds of Tenneh Parents thought that it would be about the bible teachings and impact, lived a monster who forcefully hacked and violated their little girl and further threatened her never to say it to anyone, else she would die. The only reason for the monster’s action was to quiet down my selfless spirit in engaging elders on how they treat kids at such tender age not knowing society would have been even bigger than what I saw happening.”
(Liberia)