Ending Female Genital Cutting in Guinea

In May 2007, Plan began funding AFAF, a local Guinean NGO that advocates for the end of female excision. AFAF provides training to non-excised girls where they learn about excision, reproductive health and child rights.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Ending
• Female
• Genital
• Cutting
• Mutilation
• Guinea
• Plan
• International
• FGC
• FGM
• AFAF
• Excisors
• Tradition

[Tasia714]

Praise the Lord! I have been praying about the end of this OUTRAGEOUSE and Brutal tradition for years. I am relieved to see great efforts to put a end to this tradition.

I feel so badly for all the woman that have had this happen to them.

[DaniB181]

I don't understand what the point of female genital cutting would be? Is it about control or is there some weird belief about it?

[Sclunger]

@BloodTearsSweat Unnecessary skin? Where did you hear that it's unnecessary skin?

[JUNEBUG754]

@XmissrenegadeX i think it might be because they dont want to have children

[GinWu]

It is also done because the clit is seen as a little penis. To cut it off is seen as making these girls women. It is about getting rid of her wildness and masculinity and making her purely feminine.

All in all, it’s a means of control.

[XmissrenegadeX]

@DaniB181 i think it's some stupid belief that cutting a girl's genitals will make it so she doesn't become promiscuous. in the video the girl says her father-in-law wanted her to be cut, because he didn't want her to cheat on his son. it's really sick that even other women advocate this....male circumcision is NOT the same as female circumcision. they cut the clit OFF, with dirty knives, no anesthesia.

[BloodTearsSweat]

@lifelessheap Circumcising a boy in the USA is a lot less painful then what they do in Africa. The US is not poor country and has proper medical procedures and trained medical professionals. Not some midwives with dirty knives and no numbing medication. Circumcising a boy involves the cutting of foreskin which is an unescessary piece of skin. Not a crucial organ. And in the USA it is not a mandatory ritual wherefore in africa it is.

[lifelessheap]

OMG! They cut up girl's genitals in Africa.

OMG! They cut up boy's genitals in the USA!

Why is it okay to abuse infant boys?

[707BLACKDEVIL707]

STOP male circumcision doesn't matter if the parent wantz 2 or not...good thiz thi ppl made a good decision cuz that juzt fudged up 2 do that 2 a girl that iz like 13 years old or so...

[tallyhoman911]

Now we need to stop male circumcision in america