“At first, I was considered an uprooted person. Someone who doesn’t appreciate the culture of our ethnicity and my parents were consistently notified by the elders that I was rude. ” Dienabou Sow says.  Female

“As the president of The Women’s Movement set up by ActionAid Senegal, we will continue to join other organizations and the community so that Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) practice is completely eradicated in this region,”

The first ever The Girl Generation Festival (TGGFest 2022) was held in Nairobi, in October 2022 to commemorate both World Mental Health Day and International Day of the Girl. This year’s theme titled ‘make mental

According to UNFPA, more than 200 million women and girls have undergone FGM/C globally, and over three million more are at risk every year.  FGM/C is recognized internationally as a violation of the rights of

“As a survivor, I know what excision is because I was excised at the age of six, I remember every scream I uttered, every suffering, every pain I underwent, and I don’t even wish it

The Girl Generation- Support to the Africa-led Movement to end FGM/C has developed flexible and adaptive small grant mechanisms providing bespoke funding and capacity-building support to each grantee partner. The vision of the small grants’

The Girl Generation (TGG): Support to the Africa Led Movement to End FGM/C Programme has developed Pathways of Change indicating how the programme could accelerate positive change in social attitudes towards ending FGM/C in operational

“My daughter, our culture requires girls to go through the cut to become a woman.” These were the words of Grace’s mother before she underwent the cut a few days later in Narok East Sub

“My younger sister and I went through the FGM/C process together. She was living her best life before the violation. We had no choice as it was accepted as a cultural rite of passage for