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The Devastating Effects of FGM – One of Sierra Leone’s most Influential Grassroots Campaigners Reports

By Rugiatu Turay,

Rugiatu Turay who runs AIM Sierra Leone’s biggest grassroots campaign group against FGM writes about how much FGM is affecting communities all over Sierra Leone.

Above is the Ambulance car that carried the corpse of 21 year old Masiray Sei from the Government Autopsy Centre to her funeral in the Bondo bush. Masiray Sei bled to death after undergoing FGM. May she rest in peace.

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Ruth Harley

Ruth Harley is working with GMC as a Website News Editor, compiling stories written by End FGM campaigners working with the Global Media Campaign to End FGM across Africa. Alongside this work, she is running The Women’s Vinyl Project which empowers women and girls through singing and music and is helping to end FGM.