Schoolgirls to fly to Google HQ after inventing app to end Female Genital Mutilation – Independent

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Animated chatter spills out from a corner of tech giant Google’s Nairobi offices as five Kenyan schoolgirls discuss their upcoming trip to California where they hope to win $15,000 for I-cut, an app to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

The five teenagers, aged 15 to 17, are the only Africans selected to take part in this year’s international Technovation competition, where girls develop mobile apps to end problems in their communities.

“FGM is a big problem affecting girls worldwide and it is a problem we want to solve,” Stacy Owino told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, while snacking on chocolate on a break from boarding school before flying to the United States on August 6.

Read more here: http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/schoolgirls-to-fly-to-google-hq-after-inventing-app-to-end-female-genital-mutilation-35961751.html

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Number of Women and Girls At Risk: 25,000

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