Target 4.0 HEALTH - "Promoting Well-Being and Healthy Lives for Women and Girls"
Announcing the 2020-2022 FAWCO Target Project:
S.A.F.E. (Safe Alternatives for Female Genital Mutilation Elimination)
(A project of Hope for Girls & Women Tanzania - submitted by Jane Romain of the Munich International Women’s Club)
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Jane Romain, member of the Munich International Women’s Club submitted the 2020-2022 Target Project. Read here how she became involved with Hope for Girls and Women Tanzania
It was a sunny Easter Sunday in April of 2015 when I found myself in the kitchen alone, preparing an Easter feast for the family and invited guests.
Knowing I would be busy for several hours, I turned on my laptop to listen to some BBC documentaries. That was when Rhobi Samwelly appeared, telling the fascinating story of her life journey and work saving girls from FGM. This was the terrible barbaric practice my mother (former member of AWC The Hague and AWC London) had told me about when I was young. I was terrified. Now I had the opportunity to learn so much more about it.
I pushed the patient leg of lamb aside and listened to the documentary in its entirety. At one point my younger daughter came into the kitchen for a glass of water to find me crying in front of my laptop. “Why are you crying, Mummy?” she asked. When I told her it was just from chopping onions, she looked around and said, “But you haven’t even started cutting them yet!” It was then that I decided to get involved to help fight this atrocity. After Easter I wrote an email to Rhobi, who put me in touch with the Tanzania Development Trust, and things went from there.
(Jane’s mother, Eileen Stemmler, was a member of AWC The Hague and AWC London in the 1970s.)
A day in the lives of the girls of Hope for Girls and Women Tanzania
FAWCO, Hope for Girls and Women Tanzania, Tanzania Development Trust and the EndFGM Canada Network co-hosted a screening on February 6 (International Day of Zero Tolerance against FGM) and March 10 (International Women's Day) of In the Name of Your Daughter followed by a Q&A session discussion with Rhobi Samwelly, Founder and Director of HGWT and groups of girls from HGWT.
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S.A.F.E. (Safe Alternatives for FGM Elimination), a project of Hope for Girls & Women Tanzania resources:
- Hope for Girls & Women Tanzania
- Trailer of the documentary In the Name of Your Daughter
- Facebook page Hope for Girls & Women Tanzania
- Video providing more information on S.A.F.E (Safe Alternatives for FGM - Female Genital Mutilation - Elimination)
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Hope for Girls & Women Tanzania overview (video of 40 min)
Links to blogs addressing S.A.F.E., FGM and related topics:
- S.A.F.E. Interim Report – January 2021
- Safe Houses: A Safe Haven or Just Another Orphanage?
- The 10 Most Important FACTS About FGM
- SAFE_2020 Annual Report
- The FAWCO Virtual Tour Visits Tanzania!
- Is FGM Happening Here?
- Female Genital Mutilation: A Cut or A Blessing?
- An FGM Call to Action – 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
- What You and I Can Do to Stop FGM
- The Impact of COVID-19 on the Elimination of FGM and Hope for Girls and Women Tanzania
- FGM Recommended Booklist
- FGM is Not JUST an Africa Issue
- Who is Rhobi Samwelly, the Face behind Hope for Girls & Women Tanzania?
- Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): the facts
- Announcing the 2020 – 2022 FAWCO Target Project: S.A.F.E. (Safe Alternatives for FGM Elimination)
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