“I’m frightened my dad will cut me.”

“I am afraid of FGM because of excessive bleeding and you can die. After being cut you can be given to an old man.”

“There was a girl who was circumcised when she was about 7 years and she got married – just a young girl.’’

“’Now that I am 16 years, I can be given to a 60 year old man (to marry).”

“My mother does not want me to be cut but my grandmother and grandfather may want me to go through FGM and there’s nothing my mother can do about it.”

“If you are cut, you cannot go back to school because you are a woman.”

“There are two girls in my class and one has dropped out. We do not know if she will come back to school.”

“Some girls have dropped out because their father says there is no reason why they should finish school and he will not send them to secondary school.”