This is a movie I acted while at ASCON for my YALI program (YALI Nigeria Cohort 4)
Before I went to ASCON I had been advocating against Female Genital mutilation via @endcuttinggirls on instagram through the #Frownchallenge which takes place every last Friday of the month. When I read this script written by Bakakry Sinking who is a YALI participant from The Gambia, I asked him to cast me as Grandmaa Mary.
This movie portrays a woman trying to uphold tradition by all means, a son preventing the occurrence of tradition with all his might and eventually the deadly consequence of FGM.
To end FGM, we need to spread the word about it’s ills. It has no health benefits.
Watch and share to create more awareness, you might just save a young girl’s life.
Link:https://youtu.be/GRHZqRgTHSA
Good one! FGM indeed has no health benefit and we must fight to finish.
Not at all dear
Really, more channels of awareness like this need to be many and i know it will reach the locals
We must speak out against this evil #NOFGM
I will certainly make my voice against FGM loud.
Thank you. Lets continue to speak out against this.
Thank you for this post. I hope the video especially gets to those who practice FGM.
I have a question please is it true that if a woman is not circumcised they are easily aroused? which leads them to been promiscuous??
It is not true. In fact, report has it that issues of promiscuity are even high on those who are circumcised. Factors that cause sexual promiscuity is beyond genital mutilation. It cut across personality to social factors and sometimes genetics/heredity
You are right. I know of someone who is highly promiscus but she was circumcised. My interaction with her shows that the effect of circumcision has not allowed her to ‘ve sexual satisfaction hence, she crave for more. FGM does more harm than good to the women folk.
a woman must answer to this.. This question has been on my mind too..
I don’t see the correlation between getting aroused and being promiscuous. FGM is an evil which must be condemned at all times.
Female Genital mutilation has no health benefits and it has nothing to do with a woman being promiscuous or not.
The effects of FGM run deeper than death, if the victim survives.. She can have difficulty during birth, chronic infections amongst other dangerous side effects but yet again I trying to understand how this correlates to your question.
No religion supports FGM
No girl has to go through it
wow.. This and an eye opener, i am already sharing the video.
Thank you
FGM should be totally abolished and maybe criminalised even. Parents need to be educated more on the dangers of this practice.
Exactly
One of the problem of FGM is, some traditions/ culture encourages it. What can be done to stop it.
Education and vigorous sensitisation.
Sensitization/awareness creation
We have to educate the women who in order to their tradition, keep circumcising these young girls.
We need to spread the word about it’s ills
Dysmenorrhea
Obstructed labor
Post partum hemorrhage
Dyspareunia
Infections amongst other things
FGM is one of the violence against women practices. The archaic tradition has to be abolished in this era of civilization. It should be considered as a crime with severe sanctions.
With more awareness on the ills of FGM, it can be stop though it’s not going to be on the spot but a gradual process.
Let campaigns continue
That’s a very good campaign. We need to keep on talking against FGM.
This heinous act must be discouraged.
Thank you for helping to spread the new about this deadly act.
Thank you for helping to spread the news about this deadly act.
Nice work.