Govt urged to build shelters for girls who escape, survive FGM

Govt urged to build shelters for girls who escape, survive FGM
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Serenity and nature at its best is how you can explain this region, an area located in the central parts of Tanzania. The region is endowed with honey as if it were a promised land and not to mention of sunflower seeds and groundnuts. The two lakes ...
FGM Fight - a War Mara Must Win At All CostAllAfrica.com

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Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

17 May

Milestone as 250 girls escape FGM

Kilindi. Some 250 young Maasai girls were yesterday attained womanhood in a traditional rite of passage that was conducted at Saunyi Village, in Saunyi Ward, Kilindi District, Tanga Region, without undergoing Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

15 Dec

LAKE ZONE: 117 girls take refuge in church to escape FGM

>The Anglican Church here has provided shelter to 117 young girls who ran away from their homes to escape female genital mutilation (FGM).

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

27 Dec

2,000 Mara girls forced to flee homes to escape FGM

A total of 2,118 girls have fled their homes since November 15 this year to escape female genital mutilation (FGM) in some areas of Mara Region.

 

9 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

28 Dec

Tanzania: 2000 Mara Girls Forced to Flee Homes to Escape FGM

Tanzania: 2000 Mara Girls Forced to Flee Homes to Escape FGM
AllAfrica.com
Tarime — A total of 2,118 girls have fled their homes since November 15 this year to escape female genital mutilation (FGM) in some areas of Mara Region. The girls have been sheltered at Masanga Rescue Centre, which is managed by the Catholic Church ...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

01 Feb

Govt urged to act on pregnant school girls’ policy

Education stakeholders have requested the government to put to use the long awaited policy seeking to allow teenage students conceiving in schools to continue with their studies.

 

10 years ago

BBC

'Fifty girls' taken from UK for FGM

UK police begin an investigation into reports that at least 50 girls were taken from the UK to Somalia for female genital mutilation.

 

10 years ago

Daily News

04 Dec

15 Siha girls cheat FGM, marriage

15 Siha girls cheat FGM, marriage
Daily News
FIFTEEN primary school children who had been lined up for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and subsequent marriage have been saved from the ordeal as police have been called in to handle the matter. The children, mainly from pastoralt communities here ...

 

10 years ago

IPPmedia

11 Feb

Tanzania signs Girls Summit Charter on FGM

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Tanzania signs Girls Summit Charter on FGM
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British High Commissioner Dianna Melrose at the signing of an agreement in Dsm yesterday under which the government of Tanzania committed itself to ending FGM and child marriages. The government has signed Girls Summit Charter that calls for the ...
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11 years ago

TheCitizen

06 Jun

Big up for London concert to raise money for FGM girls

One special thing I have learnt living in London is its preservation of old buildings, historic sites and places. Sometimes you come across old alleys that belonged to the era of horses and roads made from small, hard, brown-black bricks.

 

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