{"id":15007,"date":"2018-09-14T04:26:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T04:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15007"},"modified":"2018-09-14T04:26:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T04:26:27","slug":"the-kenyan-teenagers-tackling-female-genital-mutilation-with-an-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15007","title":{"rendered":"The Kenyan teenagers tackling female genital mutilation with an app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>A group of Kenyan teenagers have created an app called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6ZUl8-bE_yc\" target=\"_blank\">i-Cut<\/a> to help girls affected by Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The students, Stacy Owino, Cynthia Otieno, Purity Achieng, Mascrine Atieno and Ivy Akinyi, have named themselves <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6ZUl8-bE_yc\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;The Restorers&#8217;<\/a>, and will be the only Africans participating in the 2017 <a href=\"http:\/\/technovationchallenge.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Technovation Challenge<\/a> in Silicon Valley in August. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The app will help connect affected girls to legal and medical assistance.   <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)A group of Kenyan teenagers have created an app called i-Cut to help girls affected by Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).The students, Stacy Owino, Cynthia Otieno, Purity Achieng, Mascrine Atieno and Ivy Akinyi, have named themselves &#8216;The Restorers&#8217;, and will be the only Africans participating in the 2017 Technovation Challenge in Silicon Valley in August. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}