We only still need that 40 people donate 30 Euro and that is it! Bintou goes and represents all of us who want a world without FGM! 40 x 30,00 € – still needing: 598,00 € CLICK HERE TO DONATE Bintou wants to go to Senegal to participate in an International Conference against Female Genital…
“The Crocodile” is an initiative of Bintou Bojang to fight Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The first nationwide networking meeting will be on the 12th of June in Dortmund, when women affected by FGM will come from different parts of Germany to spend a day sharing their experiences and elaborating strategies to eradicate FGM from the face…
Bintou Bojang is 21 years old, she went through Female Genital Mutilation at the age of 11 years old. In 2012 she came to Germany and applied for asylum. At first she was rejected. The authorities didn’t believe her story. She then appealed and got accepted under the Humanitarian Help.
Khadija Gbla grew up caught between two definitions of what it means to be an “empowered woman.” While her Sierra Leonean mother thought that circumsizing her — and thus stifling her sexual urges — was the ultimate form of empowerment, her culture as a teenager in Australia told her that she deserved pleasure and that…
BAMAKO, Mali — In the primarily Francophone and Anglophone region of West Africa, Mali is said to have one of the highest rates of female genital mutilation, with about 91 percent of girls and women having undergone the circumcision — a rate that has not only stayed stubbornly high but may also be inching upward.…
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