Preventing excision, promoting health and rights
The project
Women rightsHealth
Excision, parlons-en! is a project dedicated to the fight against female genital mutilation. It works to protect women and girls by promoting their health and fundamental rights. The project aims to prevent such violence, raise public awareness and support victims, in order to break the silence, preserve women's dignity and promote their equality and emancipation.
Action regions
Île-de-France
125 000
women victims of excision in France
1500
students reached each year
1000
bus faces for the Excision Alert campaign
Solution
Excision, parlons-en ! offers a comprehensive, networked approach that combines prevention, awareness-raising and support. The association organizes actions in schools and for the general public, trains professionals, and creates circles of words for women. This strategy aims to prevent mutilation, protect rights and promote health and dignity for women and girls.
Use of the money
Donations will enable us to hire a facilitator for school outreach, organize discussion groups and art therapy sessions, purchase educational materials and deploy our advocacy and communication campaigns, strengthening our action to prevent FSM.
Action regions
Île-de-France
"I'd come in at 16 to be prescribed the contraceptive pill and they talk to me about excision, without explaining what it is. I didn't even think about it when I got home. My mother told me it was like that, that they'd all been."
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