The Global Media Campaign
GMC partners DIRECTLY with frontline activists using media to end FGM.
They create anti-FGM TV and radio campaigns that change people’s minds Impact Here
GMC works in *10 countries across Africa and is the FGM media partner of the UNFPA and The World Bank.
1000 +
Media Graduates
9
Countries
2000 +
Media campaigns
How we work
Our campaigners in action
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
Our Partners
Testimonials


