Girdle Advocacy Projects #EndViolenceAgainstWomen
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Girdle Advocacy Projects #EndViolenceAgainstWomen
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We run an online and a Field Awareness Programme on #women issues #EndFGM #Endchildmarriage #Endbreastironing #Endvirginitytest #endviolenceagainstwomenandgirls
whatsoever and my mom didn’t know that that was happening to us. My mother didn’t know her daughters had been taken to be circumcised.
Later, when I got married, I couldn't have sex. I had to return to the doctor, and then, I had to wait until I healed."

Let's #EndFGM 🙏🏽
October 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
My #FGM Torture🩸
"I was Tied On The Bed While A Man Cut My Genitals!"

Ayan Chanel (#RHODubai Star) Recounts In Tears:
"At 5 years old, my aunt and my grandma came to pick us up to take us to another town and then, the next morning at 6 a.m., I didn’t know where I was going
October 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
flow to protest against the suspension.

ALSO, in 2021, many traditional leaders (led by Chief Zanzar Kawar) unashamedly, pleaded with the Govt to consider them before banning FGM because their livelihoods depended on cutting girls and women!

How you can HELP us to #EndFGM👇🏾
October 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Did You KNOW?🔪
"Sande Society Use Girls To Fight Against Any Plans To Ban #FGM!"

In 2022, when the then-Liberian Govt suspended FGM for 3 years, Sande Society (facilitators of Sande Bush Schools where baby-girls and young girls are circumcised) used young girls to block traffic
October 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
My #FGM Heartbreak
"Instead Of Helping My Sister To Deliver Her Baby, The Midwife Was Concerned About Circumcising Her - That's How She Died!"

Ms. Telo Recounts:
"I and my Late sister, Napala Nangiro, are from Amudat District in Uganda.
There was little reason to be concerned
October 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
My #FGM Torture💔
"My Urinal Part Were Sewn To My Anal Region That In Child Delivery, My Private Area Were Torn Open So My Baby Can Come Out!"

Mrs Adimu Recounts:
"I was circumcised when I was eight years old. It was the infibulation type. I don't think my mother was aware that
September 19, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Another DEATH: 5-Year-Old Girl Dies After Female Genital Mutilation In Koloma, Guinea!

The Koloma neighborhood in the commune of Gbessia is in shock after the death of a 5-year-old girl, which occurred a few weeks after a female circumcision. This tragedy, all the more shocking
August 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
SHE Could Have Been SAVED!
I was upset while reflecting on the needless death of the one-month-old Gambian girl AND how it could have been avoided if someone had contacted an anti-FGM person, not necessarily an advocate or group!
Sure, many people had contacted us to intervene in
August 18, 2025 at 6:56 AM
#ICYMI : 3 Women In Gambia Are Charged In The Death Of One-Month-Old In Female Genital Mutilation Case!

Three women were charged in Gambia over the death of a one-month-old girl who had undergone #FGM, the police said, in the first such case since the country stopped short of
August 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
My #FGM Heartbreak
"I Was Born Perfect But I Limp (From My Childhood To Adulthood) Because Of A Dislocation I Had While FGM Was Done To Me!"

Nastehe Abubakar Recounts:
"I was 5 years old when I was circumcised; a group of women wrestled me to the ground and tore my clothes.
As I
August 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I met some girls with even more traumatic stories; one girl told me she was circumcised with a broken glass!
There was a war in Somalia and I and my family went outside Mogadishu to be safe.
But lots of soldiers came and took all our things and raped me - I was 13 years old then!
August 5, 2025 at 6:38 AM
My #FGM Torture💔
"I Was Circumcised Twice (8 And 13 Years Old)! The Second Time Was Because Some Soldiers Raped Me; For That - My Genitals Had To Be Sewn Up Again!"

Ifrah Ahmed Recounts:
"When I was 8 years old, I was circumcised by my grandmother's brother; he was a doctor.
August 5, 2025 at 6:38 AM
My #FGM Heartbreak
"Why I Won't Forgive My Mother..."

Kadie Recounts:
I'm from Moyamba, Sierra Leone; I was 10 when my parents withdrew me from school.
I can still recall that my teacher tred to talk them out of it.
They didn't listen because they wanted to take me to the Bondo
August 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Just IN: 14 Senegalese Circumcisers Abandons FGM, Says, "Many Women Have Suffered From Its Consequences!"

On Wednesday, July 23, Tambacounda (city in Senegal) hosted the 4th edition of the retraining ceremony for circumcisers.
On the occasion, 14 former practitioners of excision
July 31, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Did You KNOW?
"The Bondo Secret Society Are Funded By Politicians To Win Political Power!"

In Sierra Leone, the Bondo Society is so powerful that many politicians, since the country's independence in 1961, use them as a political tool!
In recent times, politicians woo the Bondo
July 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
My #FGM Torture
"We Are Sewn Up To Prove Men's Masculinity!"

Mrs Leylo Recounts:
"I was a child when my father had started planning to marry me out!
He invited a circumciser to cut and almost, entirely sew up my genitals when I was four years old.
I grew up to learn that it is a
July 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
release.
On 10 November, I had grown impatient of the wait and decided, with help from a local NGO, to retrieve my daughter.
I had found out that my daughter and 42 other girls had been moved from the Sande Bush to another town.
I went to the girls’ new location and paid for my
July 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
My #FGM Heartbreak💔
"My Daughter Was Abducted And Had Her Genitals Forcibly Mutilated!"

Deborah Parker Recounts:
"On 28 September 2021, my 15-year-old daughter was abducted by traditional leaders in Liberia, known as the Zoes, and taken from Mount Barclay, a town near Monrovia,
July 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Her #FGM Torture
"My Cousin-Sister's Elderly Husband Couldn't Devirginize Her; So, He Used A Knife And Inserted It Deep Into Her Vagina..."

Mrs Fatiya Recounts:
"There's a lady who is my cousin. She was married in Somalia by an old man. She was a virgin and the old man wanted to
July 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Just IN: FGM Rate In Egypt Drops From 61% To 37%: Minister.💪🏽

#Cairo: The prevalence of female genital mutilation (FGM) among girls aged 15-17 in Egypt has fallen sharply to 37 percent in 2021 from 61 percent in 2014, Social Solidarity Minister Maya Morsy announced on Thursday.
June 21, 2025 at 7:32 AM
My #FGM TORTURE
"When I Was Between The Age Of 5 And 9, I Had Been Circumcised 4 Times Because The Circumciser Gave The Same Excuse That She Didn't Do A Good Job On ME On Each Of The Previous 3 Times!"

Mehret Yemane Recounts:
"I was nine or ten years old when I had already been
June 20, 2025 at 8:14 AM
My #FGM TORTURE💔
"I've Had Two Miscarriages Because Of The Infections FGM Caused!"

Elham Ismail Recounts:
"I was taken from my family home in Sudan early one morning. I was too young to understand what was happening as two ladies came to the house and took me away in a taxi (my
June 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
My #FGM Torture💔
"I Went Through 4 Surgeries To Get Rid Of The Cysts FGM Caused On My Clitoral Hood!"

Evangeline Mukami Recounts:
"I was very young; probably 10 years old. It was early in the morning. I was told to sit on banana leaves. I was held down by women; some of them my
June 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Did You KNOW?‎🐓🩸
In Indonesia, Some Circumcisers Use A Knife Smeared With A Cock's Blood To Circumcise Girls!

Sanro Jintang (a traditional healer) Reveals:
"I have likely circumcised around a thousand people. If a girl is not circumcised, she will become mischievous!
What we do is cut a rooster's
May 29, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Just IN: Miss World Somalia Tearfully Recounts Suffering From Female Genital Mutilation At Age 7!

Miss World 2025 candidate, Zainab Jama, from Somalia broke into tears during the “Head-to-Head” challenge, as she narrated her harrowing experience of being forced to undergo #FGM
May 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM