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STOP Female Genital Mutilation

What is Female Genital Mutilation ?    (more)

My name is Aissatou Barry, like millions of others, this too is MY story!

 I myself suffered the trauma, physical and physhological effects of Female Genital Mutilation (“FGM”) at the age of 9. After the birth of my daughter, to save her from this depravity, I fled to France, which is where I now live in relative safety but I grieve for the land of my birth.

 FGM is also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision (“FGM/C”); which is a ritual removal of some or all of the external female genitalia typically carried out by using a blade with or without anaesthesia. In the most severe form, the practice includes the removal of the clitoral hood and clitoral glands, removal of the inner and outer labia and closure of the vulva (known as infibulation). To date, it is estimated that at least 200 million women and girls in 30 key countries have experienced FGM. This is not a right of passage, most girls are cut before the age of five and up to the age of fifteen!!

So how has the world reacted:

·      Missionary Hulda Stumpt was murdered in Kikuyu in 1930 after opposing FGM;

·      A Pulitzer Prize was won in 1996 for a series of photographs of an FGM ceremony in Kenya;

·      In December 2012, the United Nations General Assembly passed resolution 67/146 recognizing FGM as a human-rights violation;

·      The UN began sponsoring an International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation every 6 February.

Not denigrating the efforts of pioneers gone by but is that it, the recognition of a day!?

The future though isn’t just my story but OURS, it’s YOURS!

As one voice, I am but a whisper but together WE are more than conquerors.

Mother Theresa once said that “The problem with the world is that we draw our family circle too small”. YOU are my sisters, my mothers, my brothers and my fathers. So, unified, let us stop this barbaric act of violation of our women and daughters.

In partnership with Tribalmixing, we want to bring more attention to this barbarism that continues to persist in over 27 African countries as well as Indonesia, Yeman and Iraqi Kurdistan, in parts of the Middle East and Asia and among diaspora communities around the world, including but not limited to; USA, UK, SCOTLAND, AUSTRALIA, FRANCE and others even in the year 2016. 
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The cost to rehabilitate just one woman is approximately $325 but this starts with a place of refuge, a safe haven.

With YOUR support, we can establish a Community Centre to educate people, support women, reach outlying villages and actively promote a media crew for editing footage into communication pieces. Not a faceless, divorced or remote contributor but a PHYSICAL participant on the ground solution!

Please lend YOUR support and voice to DON’T CUT, be World Changers!

HOW DO WE KNOW AISSATOU:
Ron, the founder of tribalmixing, met Aissatou in Guinea, Conakry in 2010. She is now a member of tribalmixing. 

Tribalmixing  uses business to create sustainable solutions for Social Challenges.

DON'T CUT: is a tribalmixing.com  Project to bring attention to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)  and to work for its elimination.

Aissatou Barry of tribalmixing  is an International Affairs college graduate  and an  expert in FGM, (Female Genital Mutilation).

DONATE - PARTICIPATE and SPREAD THE WORD
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Director DON'T CUT: Aissatou Barry
Founder CEO tribalmixing: Ron Samuel

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Ron Samuel
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