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Girls practice a rite-of-passage ceremony, an alternative to the genital cutting that for many Maasai marks the passage into womanhood, in Lenkisem, Kenya, Dec. 7, 2017. As a young girl, Nice Leng’ete hid to avoid the mutilation. Now 27, she runs a program going village to village, spreading a new rite of passage that has helped some 50,000 girls avoid the cutting ritual. (Andrea Bruce/The New York Times)

In Kenya, Sparing Girls From a Painful Rite of Passage