Your text explains that:  Female Genital Mutilation is the traditional cutting, circumcision, and removal of most or all external genitalia of women for the end result of closing off some or part of the vagina until such time that the woman is married and cut open.

Remember that it must be in APA format, you must credit your sources and then you must respond to classmates.  Your essay is due Thursday night with a minimum of 350 words.and your responses to classmates is due Sunday night.

Question:  Doctors and missionaries had tried for over 200 years to stop FGM with no success.  After 30 years of teaching literacy and health in Sengal Africa, over 3 million people now live in communities who have declared that they will not cut their daughters.  What was different about her approach:?  What made it effective?

https://www.tostan.org/about-us/mission-history/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6VarmpxXKg&t=56s&ab_channel=Skoll.org