Last night a lady was brave enough having had this treatment in India and saying how it effected her. I have a daughter and that thought makes my blood run cold! She was saying that a trusted lady led her into a room and took this knife and held her Vulva between her fingers and cut it off. The pain was indescribable. Her mother was next door! What a tradition that needs to change. But as this has been going for such a long time and this lady who has been talking about it has been threatened by some members of the public who feel that she has let down those traditional members.
Here is a link to a blog one of our interns did on my behalf on the issue of FGM here in the UK:
https://nextcenturyfoundation.wordpress.com/2018/08/01/fgm-in-the-uk-how-to-prevent-this-tragedy/
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