Dominic Kamau Maichuhie – Media Challenge Winner, Kenya
Dominic Kamau Maichuhie is one of the ten winners of the media challenge: ‘Reporting Senstively on Harmful Practices’ organized by the African Union, Spotlight Initiative, UNFPA, and The Global Media Campaign to End FGM. Her article was published in Daily Nation on Friday the 10th November, 2023. Her story details a girl, who by age […]
‘Reporting Sensitively on Harmful Practices’ Media Challenge
#FrontlineEndingFGM presents the ten talented journalists and winners to the Media Competition: ‘Reporting Sensitively on Harmful Practices’. This Media challenge, organized by the African Union, Spotlight Initiative, UNFPA, and The Global Media Campaign to End FGM, followed the capacity-building training workshop held in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) in August 2023. Congratulations to all the participants in […]
Zero Tolerance Day – Kenya
See the activities that took place in Kenya, ran by #FrontlineEndingFGM activists for Zero Tolerance day, funded by our Direct Action Grants. This year’s theme was ‘Her Voice, Her Future: Investing in Survivors-Led Movements to End Female Genital Mutilation’. Fit for Future Kenya Fit For Future is a Feminist Advocacy Organization. Through the grant, Fit […]
Zero Tolerance Day – Liberia
Zero Tolerance Day for Female Genital Mutilation was on February the 6th, 2024. See how frontline organisations in Liberia observed this day with the theme “Her Voice, Her Future”. Foundation for Community Empowerment – This is a group of journalists, activists and religious leaders working together in order to ensure the eradication of FGM. The […]
Born Perfect Caravan – Guinea-Bissau
Available data indicates that more than 52% of Guinean women between the ages of 15 and 49 have been victims of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Guinea-Bissau, a country located in West Africa). The Gabú Region, in the east, which is mainly populated by the Fula ethnic group, belonging to the Muslim religion, is the […]
Born Perfect Caravan – Mauritania
PROJET CARAVANE EN MAURITANIE / DU mouvement Agir contre les mutilations génitales féminines (MAC /RIM) I – Présentation Je m’appelle Abdoulaye Falilou Ba, jeune activiste mauritanien et coordinateur du mouvement agir contre les mutilationsgénitales en république islamique de Mauritanie (MAC /RIM) ! Depuis 2020, nous luttons contre les mutilations génitalesféminines en Mauritanie. Notre mouvement a […]
Born Perfect Caravan – Kenya
Seeing the horrible effects of FGM on girls usually fills me with rage BY KAMAU MAICHUHIE My name is Kamau Maichuhie, a journalist currently working for the Nation Media Group (NMG) here in Kenya. NMG the largest media organisation in East and Central Africa. Here at NMG, I write for the Daily Nation Newspaper, the […]
Born Perfect Caravan – Djibouti
I am a mother who has personally experienced the consequences of the pharaonic practice of FGM. My commitment against this devastating tradition began in the associative framework then evaluated in my professional life at Radio Television of Djibouti. Through this platform various actors shared their expertise on air by informing and communicating on the consequences […]
Caravane Born Perfect – Senegal
Je m’appelle Seydou Diatta .Je suis journaliste reporter chez Emedia Invest (Iradio –ITV/Sénégal) . Cela fait maintenant plus de plus de 15 ans que je me suis engagé dans la lutte contre la pratique de mutilation génitale féminine et contre les violences basées sur le genre de façon générale au nom de la masculinité positive. […]
Born Perfect Caravan – Sierra Leone
My name is Alpha Kamara,a Sierra Leonean journalist and human rights activist. My colleague, Jonathan Omaru Junior, is a community radio station manager in Bonthe District, Sierra Leone. We both come from the two largest ethnic groups that are known for practicing FGM. We are also fathers to beautiful daughters whom we cherish dearly.The need […]
