Amref Health Africa is championing the cause for a continent free of Female Genital Mutilation where girls are empowered to continue their education and become the women of their dreams.
We engage families and communities so that they can make a collective and coordinated choice to abandon the practice, and so that no single girl or family is disadvantaged by the decision. To aid in this, Amref propagates the Alternative Rite of Passage (ARP) approach to fight FGM.
This video exhibition shows powerful and inspiring FGM messages.
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"Relatives encourage early marriage"
"I don't trust the old women since they use the same tools for circumcising"
"FGM is bad and it's not meant for girls since it has many consequences"
"I fear because I don't have a father, my mother might give me up"
"When I grow up I want to have a better future"
"I don't know if I will finish school"
"Our Fathers don't see that girls are as important."
"Some girls have dropped out because their father says there is not ...
"We don't want to be circumcised, we want to study"
"The are 2 girls in my class and one has dropped out."
"I'm 16 years now but I can be given a 60 year old man"
"There was a girl who was circumcised and she was about 7 years"
"When you're cut you can't go back to school because you're a woman"
"When you fail exams you don't have worth"
"My grandparents may want me to go through FGM"
"I fear in December I can be given to a man"
"I am afraid of FGM will lead to me dropping out of school."
"I am afraid of FGM because of excessive bleeding."
"I am frightened of the holidays because many girls go to FGM."
