I am the CEO and founder of a small UK based NGO, Orchid Project. Prior to this, I worked in a number of roles in the private sector in London. Orchid Project has a vision of a world free from female genital cutting (FGC). We advocate to ensure stakeholders resource and prioritise an end to FGC. We communicate the potential for an end to the practice, raising awareness about how, why and where FGC happens, and partner with organisations that deliver a sustainable, proven end to female genital cutting.
...to help other women who wanted to abandon this too, but I didn’t know how.” “Then Tostan came to my village, and together we studied different human rights that we...
...it is the right thing to do. It is difficult for individual families to stop the practice on their own, for risk of social sanctions. For a community to abandon...
...to have been in the room in New York yesterday, to be one of the first to hear this news. This year's CSW is not set up to be easy,...
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