Education: Child Marriages
Female Genital Mutilation (often referred to as FGM) is a destructive operation, during which the female genitals are partly or entirely removed or seriously injured!
This is done to prevent women from enjoying sexual intercourse. Most often this horrific practice is done on little girls before puberty, between the ages of four and eight, but recently it is increasingly performed on babies who are only a couple of days, weeks or months old.
Female genital mutilation has serious health (physical and mental!) effects which often occur immediately after the procedure and may cause severe bleeding , infections, tetanus, paralysis of the bladder or blood poisoning, and can even result in death. HIV / AIDS can also be transmitted via the use of dirty instruments.