Canadian Women Harmed by Genital Mutilation Find Help in the U.S.

Canadian women harmed by genital mutilation find help in the U.S.

This story was published with the assistance of the Journalism & Women Symposium (JAWS) Health Journalism Fellowship, supported by The Commonwealth Fund. As soon as she immigrated to Canada in 2011, filmmaker Habibata Ouarme began looking for a doctor who could perform reconstructive surgery to alleviate the consequences of something she endured as a child: genital cutting.  Now 40, Ouarme was just 6 years old when she experienced female genital…

“When girls succeed, entire communities change”: A rural shelter in Kenya giving girls hope beyond female genital mutilation

NAROK COUNTY, Kenya – “Female genital mutilation is carried out in secret, and in some villages in Narok County the rate is as high as 99 per cent,” explains Patrick Ngigi,…