It simply doesn't work but if together collectively we've gone away and we've talked to our partners or our friends and we've said why you did why are. You getting rid of this armpit hair why are. You doing that you've had conversations you've moved from positions of pluralistic ignorance to coming together then. You could say okay.
Now we're going to question. This practice. That is exactly what's happening in Senegal six months of human rights conversations moves to six months discussing health and hygiene. If you've never known about hand-washing and German transmission. If you've never known about reproductive health. You have no idea. What causes diarrhea why your kids are dying that's so. You get taught. These things in the community setting but as importantly.
If you've never heard of germ transmission. You may never have heard of tetanus. You may never have known. That your daughters or girls in your community had died from being cut with a rusty blade tetanus has a two-week incubation period. It doesn't show up at all a girl is cut two weeks go by she's recovering she suddenly has a high fever. It spikes she dies those communities think the spirits took our daughters can. You imagine.
This moment in these classes. They begin to make the causal link. They begin to see. That what they have done has resulted in the death of their daughters so. This program doesn't go in and tell people to stop mutilating it allows them to explore and learn and share knowledge and at the end of 30 months the communities offered the choice do. You want to stop cutting your daughter's not. All take the choice at that point but the majority do the community stands up together and collectively declares an end to cutting the social norm shifts from.
All girls are cut to all girls are uncut. Now the beauty of this moment and this is a place called cow Lac in Senegal and that was November last year so. Each woman is holding a sign with the name of her village on it. Each village brings up to five witnessing communities to see. This moment those five may still be cutting their daughters. They may still have sons who. Now need to know. They have to marry uncut girls but that inherent multiplier means. That they are considering now abandoning cutting their girls. It also means.
That the abandonment is becoming exponential so. This next slide shows. Some of the hundreds of witnessing people watching those communities declare and it also shows. This woman who has just burnt her ceremonial rope. She is a former cutter. She is saying from this moment on I will not do. This practice anymore so a word on the exponential abandonment in 1997. One community stood up and said. We will not do.
This anymore in the year 2003 200 communities had abandoned cutting today 7600 communities across six West African countries have declared. They will no longer cut their daughters and the curve is continuing so in contrast to make desn't in ABAB at the beginning these girls are in a village in Kherson bura that's in Senegal. They will never be cut. They will not. Even know about the practice potentially Senegal has had five thousand five hundred communities declare an end to female genital cutting guess.
What there at tipping points. We believe that in the next three years the whole of Senet Senegal could be free from female genital cutting in its entirety and once. That happens the movement continues to spread across boundaries across the world. One last point. I then went back and set up orchid project with supports projects like. This to scale we're looking for new solutions we're undertaking advocacy and it's really with great joy. That I remind. You of the fact foot-binding in China ended in less. Than 10 years female genital cutting can do the same thank you.
Now we're going to question. This practice. That is exactly what's happening in Senegal six months of human rights conversations moves to six months discussing health and hygiene. If you've never known about hand-washing and German transmission. If you've never known about reproductive health. You have no idea. What causes diarrhea why your kids are dying that's so. You get taught. These things in the community setting but as importantly.
If you've never heard of germ transmission. You may never have heard of tetanus. You may never have known. That your daughters or girls in your community had died from being cut with a rusty blade tetanus has a two-week incubation period. It doesn't show up at all a girl is cut two weeks go by she's recovering she suddenly has a high fever. It spikes she dies those communities think the spirits took our daughters can. You imagine.
This moment in these classes. They begin to make the causal link. They begin to see. That what they have done has resulted in the death of their daughters so. This program doesn't go in and tell people to stop mutilating it allows them to explore and learn and share knowledge and at the end of 30 months the communities offered the choice do. You want to stop cutting your daughter's not. All take the choice at that point but the majority do the community stands up together and collectively declares an end to cutting the social norm shifts from.
All girls are cut to all girls are uncut. Now the beauty of this moment and this is a place called cow Lac in Senegal and that was November last year so. Each woman is holding a sign with the name of her village on it. Each village brings up to five witnessing communities to see. This moment those five may still be cutting their daughters. They may still have sons who. Now need to know. They have to marry uncut girls but that inherent multiplier means. That they are considering now abandoning cutting their girls. It also means.
That the abandonment is becoming exponential so. This next slide shows. Some of the hundreds of witnessing people watching those communities declare and it also shows. This woman who has just burnt her ceremonial rope. She is a former cutter. She is saying from this moment on I will not do. This practice anymore so a word on the exponential abandonment in 1997. One community stood up and said. We will not do.
This anymore in the year 2003 200 communities had abandoned cutting today 7600 communities across six West African countries have declared. They will no longer cut their daughters and the curve is continuing so in contrast to make desn't in ABAB at the beginning these girls are in a village in Kherson bura that's in Senegal. They will never be cut. They will not. Even know about the practice potentially Senegal has had five thousand five hundred communities declare an end to female genital cutting guess.
What there at tipping points. We believe that in the next three years the whole of Senet Senegal could be free from female genital cutting in its entirety and once. That happens the movement continues to spread across boundaries across the world. One last point. I then went back and set up orchid project with supports projects like. This to scale we're looking for new solutions we're undertaking advocacy and it's really with great joy. That I remind. You of the fact foot-binding in China ended in less. Than 10 years female genital cutting can do the same thank you.
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