The Global Media Campaign is a web of 375 media activists across 7 countries broadcasting directly to their communities where girls are cut. This new generation of grassroots, digitally literate young campaigners are best-placed to end FGM in their communities. And, with relatively modest support, they can make significant change.
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Choose a country to meet our activists
Kenya








@PCKemei or @AdventureYG_Ke and on Facebook.


Mali








Nigeria









In the last 6 years I have worked with Osun State Broadcasting Corporation (OSBC) Radio and Television station to broadcast the anti-FGM message reaching more than 6 million people. I am also a beneficiary of Direct Action Media Grants from the GMC team. Follow my work on Facebook and on Twitter @dejiadefila and @osbcng or on our website.




Puntland
coming soon…
Sierra Leone











Somalia





The Gambia
coming soon…
The Backroom Team in London
Maggie O’Kane – Executive Director
Naimah Hassan – Programme Director
Dee Lukic – Production & Finance Manager
Mary Carson – Social & Multimedia Producer
Mariam Aliabadi – Projects & Media Production
Charlotte Morlie – Projects
The Board
TRUSTEES
Julia Cook, Change Management Group
Julia Cook is a management consultant with over 20 years of experience supporting charities and building the now internationally renowned charity, Consortia For Street Children. Her company now employs 40 people in the UK and the Middle East.
Jeremy Cox, Chartered Accountant
Jeremy is a Chartered Accountant qualifying with Brebners who specialise in media and entertainment.
Stephen Dawson, Philanthropist and Social Entrepreneur
Stephen Dawson, a former venture capitalist who holds an OBE for his services to philanthropy, is one of the Global Media Campaign’s private funders.
Dexter Dias QC (Chair), Human rights lawyer, Deputy High Court Judge, Special Advisor on Human Rights to Unicef UK, internationally renowned author
Dexter Dias QC is a Barrister (Queen’s Counsel), who has been instructed in some of the biggest cases of recent years involving human rights, murder, crimes against humanity, terrorism, war crimes and genocide. He was Chair and a principal author of the report to the UK Parliament that changed the law on FGM to strengthen its protection of young women and girls.
Martin Doyle, Headmaster and Governor of Riverside School, Haringey, London
Martin has been involved in work for charities for many years: as chair of ‘Out and About’ (a school-based charity funding residential trips for low-income families).
Virginia Henley, Lawyer specialised in charity law and social enterprise
Katrin McMillan, Founder and CEO, Hello World
Katrin is the Founder of Hello World an NGO that provides digital education, power and connectivity, built by the community, for marginalised communities in Nepal and Africa.
Musikilu Mojeed, Editor-in-Chief, Premium Times, Abuja, Nigeria
Alan Rusbridger, former Editor-in-Chief of the Guardian
Now Principal of Lady Margaret College, Oxford University and Chair of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
Deborah Botwood Smith is a communications expert with a long track record advising international private sector companies on corporate reputation, ESG issues, thought leadership and crisis management and has also worked in public policy, politics and regulation.
Annual accounts
Download AA 2017-18 here