Help fight FGM

Donate to keep up the fight against female genital mutilation and your gift will be DOUBLED

Your support could help:

• set up Girls’ Clubs so girls can become leaders and anti-FGM campaigners.
• train maternal health nurses to provide care and information to new mothers about FGM.
• fund mobile clinics to bring healthcare to women and girls living with the health impacts of FGM.

We know from past experience that these measures work. We just need your help.

Please help make sure the fight against FGM continues, even through conflict and crisis.

FGM is a dangerous and harmful procedure where all or part of a girl’s external genitalia is removed. It can cause severe bleeding, shock, infection, agonizing pain, long-term health complications, and even death.

We know it’s a confronting issue, but it’s too important to shy away.

Today alone, around 12,000 girls will be at risk of harm from FGM. This high number is partly driven by the widespread crisis conditions in the world, which we know lead to more girls being subjected to FGM.

But girls aren’t giving up，they urgently need your support.

No girl should be subjected to FGM

There is no reason for any girl to ever undergo FGM. It is not a religious or medical practice, only a violent violation of girls’ rights.

And right now, the risk to girls is on the rise. Widespread conflict and crisis conditions increase the risk to girls in the following ways – making your urgent support all the more critical:

• All forms of violence against women, including FGM, increase during crisis.
• Girls are pulled from education and schools close, taking away a safe space where they can learn about their rights and how to stand up for them.
• Conflict puts everyone under financial strain – including girls’ parents and the ‘cutters’ who perform FGM. Some families cope by marrying off their daughters and may feel pressure to have them cut to make them more eligible.
• It’s more dangerous to deliver anti-FGM programs in places impacted by violence.