The Restorers (Kenyan group)

The Restorers is a group of six Kenyan activists, Dorcas Owinoh, Stacy Owino, Cynthia Otieno, Purity Achieng, Macrine Atieno and Ivy Akinyi. They are using technology to fight female genital mutilation (FGM). These activists from Kisumu were brought together by their mentor Dorcas Owinoh to develop an application called i-Cut which helps FGM victims. They are known to have been the only Africans that participated in the 2017 Technovation Challenge in Silicon Valley. Quotes "FGM is a big problem affecting girls worldwide and it is a problem we want to solve." Stacy Owino was explaining why the team created the i-Cut application and why they chose to address female genital mutilation (FGM). "We want to restore hope to hopeless girls." Synthia Otieno explained why the group chose the name "The Restorers" and what they wanted their work to achieve. "We were very close but after she was cut she never came back to school." Purity Achieng described the personal experience that motivated the team to fight FGM after seeing a classmate affected. "I was saddened by these escalating rates and therefore chose to join the human rights activists that were standing up for human rights, especially those of women." Purity Achieng explained her motivation for joining the movement against violence toward women and girls. External links