“It is estimated that more than 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone female genital mutilation in the countries where the practice is concentrated. Furthermore, there are an estimated 3 million girls at risk of undergoing female genital mutilation every year.

World Health Organisation

To put that into some perspective, 3 million girls a year equate to one girl being subjected to FGM every ten seconds.

Here are the figures in black and white…

• 3,000,000 in a Year divided by 365 days = 8,219 Girls in 24 hrs
• Divided by 24 hours = 342 Girls per hour (60 minutes)
• Divided by 60 minutes = 5.7 Girls per minute (60 seconds)
• 60 seconds divided by 5.7=10.52

So that’s one girl every 10 seconds