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Female Genital Mutilation Fight in Africa

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Female Genital Mutilation Fight in Africa

Stop FGM Kenya
April 27, 2021
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In 2011 Kenya passed a law that prohibits Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and imposes tough penalties on perpetrators and those abetting the practice. The law not only bans the practice in Kenya but also prohibits cross-border FGM and bars medical caregivers from carrying out the practice.

But, there’s so much the law can do. You have to work with community elders, chiefs, religious leaders to really make an impact.

The perpetrators have gotten smarter and have devised new ways of practicing FGM. From practicing FGM in the open it has evolved to being done in private maintaining high levels of secrecy. So how do you stop a practice where the parents and the perpetrator work as team?

  1. EDUCATION.
  • Educate girls on their right to decide what happens to their body.
  • Educate the parents and the circumcises on the dangerous and potential health risks and complications that are caused by Female Genital Mutilation.

2. CHANGE TRADITIONS – WITH THE SUPPORT OF OLDER GENERATIONS

3.CHALLENGE THE DISCRIMINATORY REASONS FGM IS PRACTISED

4. SPREAD UNDERSTANDING THAT RELIGION DOES NOT DEMAND FGM

5. TACKLE THE SECRECY THAT ALLOWS CUTTING TO CONTINUE

6. KEEP PUSHING FOR FGM TO BE BANNED

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The project was initiated as a response to the alarming reports in the media and communities regarding FGM and its health and psychological effects on young girls and women especially from poor and marginalized; Maasai, Kikuyu, Kisii, Pokot, Kalenjin, Kuria among other communities of Kenya. Read More

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In Kenya alone, around 4 million, or one in five, women and girls have been subjected to #FGM. In some communities, this rises as high as 94 percent. Although overall these numbers have declined over recent years, they remain much too high. #EndFGM
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We can change cultures, we can change norms in our communities. There's still a lot to be done to end #FGM.
One way to do so is to get resources to the ground directly through educating communities. Change begins with you.
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Female Genital Mutilation concerns us all. It is a crime that is being committed in many countries. Protect our girls by reporting such cases to the authorities.
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