[2] Kulea was saved from this practice and a child marriage by a local priest, and sent to boarding school in Meru, with the blessing of her parents.

[1] After her father died two years later, her uncles wished to force her to marry, but her mother refused and made sure she stayed at school.

[1] Her nursing training taught her that FGM was not a usual practice, and that its use in Samburu did not accord with the situation in other communities.

[1][3] Kulea works alongside the police and the wife of Samburu West MP Simeon Lesrima.

[3] Kulea and the foundation are opposed by some politicians and churches, who are afraid of losing votes or members, and has been subject to threats and curses from community elders.