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Local Organisations Ending FGM and Child Marriage

GMC directly funds frontline local organisations ending FGM and child marriage across Africa. Working directly or with UNFPA, we are reaching over 1000 local organisations.We open source all our knowledge of the best local organisations in the Digital Localisation Directory to end FGM and child marriage

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Who are the Activists working with GMC?

Find out more about the 1000 + campaigners trained as media activists at GMC’s academies in 9 countries, working in-country and across borders : Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Somalia, The Gambia, Ethiopia, Mali, and Guinea.

Sadia Hussein

Media graduate and activist driving down FGM rates by 84% in Hola, Tana River region, Kenya.

Gift Abu

Running Nigeria’s biggest anti-FGM media campaigns in Cross River State.

Ifrah Ahmed

Campaigner and survivor, leading media campaigns in Somalia and Ethiopia.

Hassan Istiila

Journalist and GMC graduate leading on cross-border TV campaigns, East Africa.

Lucy-Ann Ganda

Sierra Leone’s most famous campaigning journalist leading media teams across her country

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Campaigners' latest impact results

Media survey - Tana River, Kenya. (January 2021)

80%

Have heard our campaigns

91%

Understand the medical dangers

of FGM

97%

Changing minds about FGM

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Testimonials

"Finally we have an approach to ending FGM that is not only already working in 10 countries but is rapidly scalable."
Isabella Micali DrossosSenior Counsel, World Bank
"GMC works quickly and efficiently. I have been campaigning against FGM for 40 years and GMC has the best approach I have ever seen."
Dr Morisanda Kouyate'Minister of Foreign Affairs, Guinea.
"GMC's campaigns are the most effective we have seen on ending FGM".
David Mcilroy British Ambassador, Guinea
"I am glad that we partner with the Global Media Campaign to reach out to local level campaigners to promote and amplify their work with Direct Action Media grants"
Mireille TushimininaCoordinator of the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on the Elimination of FGM
What the Global Media Campaign is doing is unprecedented - it’s new, it’s revolutionary and critically, it is on a huge scale. It could be the golden ticket to ending FGM.
Dr. Azza KaramUN Inter-Agency Task Force on Religion and Development
"FGM adds to the unending cycle of poverty by wasting $1.4 billion annually to repair women's torn bodies, but also by taking mutilated girls out of the workforce so they can be married off"
Dr Tobe Levin, Harvard University
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