by John Freund, CM | Jan 9, 2016 | Daughters of Charity, News
The Tanzania News reports on the role of the Daughters of Charity with girls undergoing an alternative rite of passage instead of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in which they receive a new name. They are now called waiseke wa kisasa in Kiswahili and Kikurya which...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 14, 2009 | Daughters of Charity, Featured, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
Systemic change is urgently needed when 130 million girls and women worldwide are currently living with the consequences of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) according to the World Health Organization. In Africa, about three million girls are at risk for FGM annually...
