Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 06:01:38 GMT
Subject: FGM/Senegal: End in Sight for Mutilation? /** headlines: 118.0 **/
** Topic: FGM/Senegal [End in Sight for Excision?] **
** Written 10:39 AM Jun 24, 1996 by newsdesk in cdp:headlines **
/* Written 9:33 AM Jun 21, 1996 by mhms@p12.f1.n7711.z5.gnfido.fidonet.o in igc:women.violence */
/* "FGM/Senegal" */
From: mhms@endadak.gn.apc.org (Marie-Helene Mottin-Sylla)
Date: 21/06/96 Senegal: Is the end in sight for excision in Fouladou? 21 June, 1996. 5- 7 June, the small village of Sare Yoba Kani in the rural community of Salikegne 20 km south of Kolda, the regional capital of the middle Casamance river valley in Senegal, was the site of a village seminar to discuss the future of excision. Two ethnic groups live in the Fouladou region, the Fulah and Mandinkas. Both practice excision. The predominant religion is Islam. The seminar was an initiative by the Sare Yoba Kani villlage community action and development programme (PADEC/SYK) which also caters for neighbouring communities in Guinea Bissau (the border runs two kilometres from the village). The meeting received the financial support of CI-AF Geneva, (the Inter African Committee on Traditional Practices affecting women's and children's health). This kind of meeting is the logical consequence of work being undertaken for several years by ENDA-SYNFEV (Synergy, gender and development) and Enda ACAS (Initiatives in Casamance), two teams of the international environment and development organisation ENDA Tiers-Monde based in Dakar Senegal and supported by CI-AF. The work over the years includes statistical research, national, regional and inter-regional meetings, international networking, and thematic and local actions. Since they were involved from the early stages of the process, the populations of Sare Yoba Kani wanted delicate questions such as excision to be dealt with within their local environment. | |
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