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Created on 22 February 2018
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Created on 30 November -0001
3. 2025 Comedy Show & Auction Sponsor Spotlight: Zehra Patwa
(News & Blog)
... includes survivors of FGC, anti-FGC activists, health care providers, and the general public. What personally inspires you or your team to advocate for social justice and community well-being? As someone ...
Created on 06 March 2025
4. Reflection on the Sahiyo Activists Retreat 2024: Zahara Kagalwalla
(News & Blog)
Each year, Sahiyo hosts an annual Activists Retreat to gather anti-FGC activists in a safe and supportive space, where they can engage in meaningful discussions about FGC. These retreats aim to foster ...
Created on 18 February 2025
5. Empowered and Ignited
(News & Blog)
By: Emily Lerosion Each year Sahiyo hosts an annual Activists Retreat to gather anti-FGC activists in a safe and supportive space, where they can engage in meaningful discussions about FGC. These retreats ...
Created on 18 January 2025
6. What Not to Say
(News & Blog)
... include overseeing the Activists Retreat Program and spearheading the male engagement initiative focused on educating and raising community awareness about female genital cutting. Her background features ...
Created on 24 December 2024
7. Sustainable Development Goals: How the UNs Benchmarks Align with Sahiyo’s Mission to End Female Gential Cutting
(News & Blog)
... Sahiyo's focus on movement building is deeply aligned with both the SDGs and the UN’s joint program’s efforts to create a global movement against FGC. Through initiatives like our Activists Retreat, survivor-led ...
Created on 12 December 2024
8. Reflections on the Sahiyo Activist Retreat: A Transformative Experience
(News & Blog)
... began in Egypt, where I worked alongside pioneering activists like Nawal El Saadawi, who fearlessly challenged the cultural and systemic roots of FGC. Being part of that movement shaped my understanding ...
Created on 12 December 2024
9. Not Who I Am
(News & Blog)
... that FGM/C was done  to curb women’s pleasure. I learned from the Activists Retreat that you actually can go to a doctor in the United States and ask them to tell you what's different, how your body has ...
Created on 21 November 2024
10. Reflecting on the NAPIESV ARP SA Grantees Gathering in Honolulu, Hawaii
(News & Blog)
...  The three-day event was significant for Sahiyo, allowing the U.S. team to reflect on its Activists Retreat program, which – thanks to this funding – has now trained over 100 activists to date. During ...
Created on 17 October 2024
11. Reflecting on the 2024 Asian Pacific Institute for Gender Based Violence National Summit
(News & Blog)
... are funded by the ARP Support for Survivors Program. As one of the grantees, Sahiyo U.S. has used the funding to grow our Activists Retreat Project, a program that seeks to grow a network of anti-FGC activists ...
Created on 13 September 2024
12. Reflecting on Sahiyo’s 2024 Activists Retreat
(News & Blog)
This past July, Sahiyo hosted its eighth annual Activists Retreat virtually, welcoming activists and individuals belonging to FGC-practicing communities to discuss the impact of this harmful practice in ...
Created on 22 August 2024
13. Reflecting on the Activist Retreat
(News & Blog)
... girls around them from experiencing FGC. Join us at the next three-day Sahiyo Activists Retreat, taking place virtually this year from July 26-July 28. Sign up now by June 1st. Related: Join us ...
Created on 28 May 2024
14. Impactful Media Reporting on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in the United States: A Reflection on our April 17, 2024 Webinar
(News & Blog)
... activists, but also film the Activist Retreat which is put on by Sahiyo in New York, [as well as help a D.C.\survivors support group for African women, and a training for law enforcement on how to look ...
Created on 21 May 2024
15. Rally, Revel, Repeat : A Changemakers Retreat!
(News & Blog)
... ago. It triggered buried memories of my own experience as an eight-year-old survivor.  I finally attended the transformative Sahiyo Activists Retreat in 2023, and those three days in Atlanta were sheer ...
Created on 19 May 2024
16. Join Us at Sahiyos Activists Retreat
(News & Blog)
Sahiyo U.S. will host its eighth annual Activists Retreat virtually via Zoom from July 26th - July 28th, 2024. Sahiyo’s Activist Retreats bring anti-FGC activists together in a safe space to female genital ...
Created on 14 May 2024
17. U.S. Activists Retreat 2024 Frequently Asked Questions
(News & Blog)
Who is this retreat for? Sahiyo is pleased to announce that the 2024 U.S. Activists’ Retreat to any person connected to a community or communities engaged in the practice of FGM/C and who is interested ...
Created on 09 April 2024
18. Join us for Sahiyo’s 8th annual Activists Retreat
(News & Blog)
From July 26 - July 28th, 2024, Sahiyo U.S. will host its 8th annual Activists Retreat virtually via Zoom. Sahiyo hosts an annual Activist Retreats to bring anti-FGC activists together in a safe space ...
Created on 19 March 2024
19. Sahiyo's Silent Auction Donor Spotlight: Zehra Patw
(News & Blog)
... survivors and activists alike. As activists, we very often keep on, burn out, rest, and then do it all over again, but Sahiyo and programs like the Activist Retreat have allowed us to carry on and not ...
Created on 29 February 2024
20. Staff Spotlight Community Engagement Coordinator: Samman Masud
(News & Blog)
... the Activists Retreat program, an annual in-person as well as a virtual event in which anti-FGC activists and survivor-advocates come together from all over the U.S. to discuss activism strategies on how ...
Created on 13 February 2024