When Kakenya Ntaiya was 12 years old, her best friend of the same age got married. Kakenya knew that she — like most of the girls in her community in southwestern Kenya — faced the same future. She ...

Kenyan schools entrepreneur and international women's rights advocate, Dr Kakenya Ntaiya, made an extraordinary bargain at the age of just seven. The Masai schoolgirl was so determined to continue her ...

Participants take part in the Kakenya’s Dream Charity Walk in Nairobi on Friday, May 9, to support girls’ education and fight FGM and child marriage. Hundreds joined charity walks in Nairobi and Narok ...

Kakenya Ntaiya is the Founder and President of Kakenya’s Dream, a nonprofit that provides life-changing education, health, and leadership initiatives to empower girls, end harmful traditional ...

Kakenya Ntaiya, the founder of Kakenya Centre for Excellence, an educational institution helping save Maasai girls from early marriage. [File, Standard] American business magnate and philanthropist ...

At the age of seven, Kakenya Ntaiya made a bargain with her father: she would undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) if he agreed to let her finish her education. She survived the ordeal, and went on ...

If it wasn't for a Faustian bargain by Maasai women's rights campaigner Dr Kakenya Ntaiya, three young women from a remote Kenyan village with no electricity or running water wouldn't be studying in ...

Kakenya Ntaiya is one of Kenya's Maasai women. A tribe where 78 percent of women experience genital mutilation. Most girls 'get cut' before they turn 15. Kakenya was just 12. Only 11 percent of the ...

Kakenya Ntaiya, a pioneering education activist in Kenya and a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, is one of the Top 10 CNN Heroes for 2013, putting her in the running for CNN Hero of the Year. For ...