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Momodou
Denmark
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 Posted - 01 Feb 2011 : 18:54:43
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Naini District Head Circumciser Declares No to FGM
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
 The head female circumciser in the Niani District Na Jontang Jawneh has declared to stop practising Female Genital Mutilation.
This declaration was made during a series of training workshops organised in Bakadagi Mandinka and Kuntaur Jakaba in the Naini District.
The workshops organised by GAMCOTRAP with funding from by UNFPA. Bakadagi Mandinka hosted 10 other communities in the cluster, while Jakaba hosted fifteen (15) Communities.
GAMCOTRAP was welcomed in a fanfare of Kankurang dance at Bakadajie Mandinka which hosted Circumcisers, Traditional Birth Attendants and Women Leaders from other surrounding communities in the cluster.
At Jakaba participants of the reproductive age from 15 communities were reached to raise their consciousness on the effects of Female Genital Mutilation, gender based violence and rights of women and children amongst others.
Speaking on the occasion, FGM and the rights of women and children, religious scholar Oustass Abubacarr Kanteh noted that FGM is not an obligation in Islam and parents have responsibility to protect their children from all forms of harmful practices.
Oustass Kanteh further noted that Islam promotes knowledge seeking and called on parents to educate their children - girls in particular. He cautioned parents to stop early and forced marriages and take responsibility to educate their daughters as education is the key to success.
The Executive Director of GAMCOTRAP Dr. Isatou Touray expressed appreciation of the leadership role Na Jontang Jawneh, head of the Circumcisers in Niani district took to publicly declare her support to support GAMCOTRAP in the campaign to stop Female Genital Mutilation - FGM and highlighted the importance of community consensus to protect girls from the practice and all other forms of Violence.
The training workshops provided opportunity for communities to discuss women’s rights issues, Gender Based Violence and FGM in the context of sexual and reproductive health.
Several participants gave testimonies on the issues raised during the training and contributed to the debate to promote and protect women and children’s rights.
Participants from both training programmes came to consensus to stop FGM and pledged to share the knowledge gained during the training.
It was noted that gender based violence and sexuality issues were of great concern to women of reproductive age. It was courageous to hear several women share their experiences with others.
Author: gamcotrap
Source: Daily News
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turk
USA
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Posted - 01 Feb 2011 : 19:28:53
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| The social change within ordinary Gambians will make the differences in Gambia in the long term. This is real progress. I congrat Naini Head Circumciser for this. Very happy day for Gambians.... |
diaspora! Too many Chiefs and Very Few Indians.
Halifa Salah: PDOIS is however realistic. It is fully aware that the Gambian voters are yet to reach a level of political consciousness that they rely on to vote on the basis of Principles, policies and programmes and practices. |
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Sister Omega
United Kingdom
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Posted - 13 Feb 2011 : 11:16:28
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I'm glad to hear this is happening. However what is society doing to make sure women in Fulladou stop waking girls out of their sleep to take them to the circumcisers in the middle of the night to have it done even without their father's knowledge? What mechanisms are there in place to educate the Grandmothers, Mothers, and Aunties from stop waking up the children to have FGM? How is the Gambian education system assisting children by empowering them to say no to the practice? What are the sanctions put in placed for presistent circumsers and how will Gambia enforce those sanctions? What is the Media doing to facilitate this information in the public domain?
More transparency is needed on this issue to bring about zero tolerance to FGM.
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Sister Omega
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