Unlike in the FGM rite where girls are prepared for marriage after circumcision, here we prepare them on how to meet social, academic and economic challenges.

We also taught them self-reliance, courtship and sexual discipline as they head towards maturity.

All they have to do is show up and bring their marriage license.

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.

Two ways to treat a girl: Make her feel as a princess Or Make her feel as a slave.