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Communities in Mali lead the way on 6th February

Posted by: Julia Lalla-Maharajh, CEO and founder of Orchid Project, Posted on: 6 February 2014 - Categories: Development Debates, Female Genital Mutilation
Public declaration in Yirimadio – 6 February 2014. Picture: Malick/Tostan

...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...

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