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1. About - Funders & Partners
Created on 02 December 2020
2. Survivor and Community Engagement Toolkit
(Uncategorised)
... comfortable to talk to me about it. They don’t trust you by the title, they trust you if you build a relationship with the community.” ~ Rufo Jiru, Anolee Sisters Voices From The ...
Created on 15 March 2025
3. Newly Released: Sahiyo’s Toolkit on Survivor and Community Engagement!
(News & Blog)
... build a relationship with the community.” - Rufo Jiru, Anolee Sisters *This toolkit was completed on September 30, 2024. What’s Inside This Toolkit? We know that every community is unique, and we ...
Created on 11 March 2025
4. Positive Masculinity; A Critical Tool in the Movement to End FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... exclude men in the work to end gender-based violence. If we do, the existing discriminatory power structure will be reinforced. It made me reflect upon my Midwest fraternity days, when “little sister” ...
Created on 20 February 2025
5. Supporting Survivors in the LGBTQIA+ Community: How Sahiyo Helped Afiqa Attend the ASEAN Queer Leadership Week
(News & Blog)
... cut was a human rights violation at a feminist-led comprehensive sexuality education workshop. I asked my mother, who readily confirmed that under her instructions, my older sister had brought me to a ...
Created on 06 February 2025
6. What Not to Say
(News & Blog)
... where my sister and I were loved and treated equally as our brother, and so was the case for my cousins and friends. But growing up within a South Asian community, I could not ignore the prayers and blessings ...
Created on 24 December 2024
7. Support
(News & Blog)
By The Anole Sister Being an Anole Sisters member, I am an FGM/C survivor. For the past four decades, I have lived with this experience. Since 2015, I have been advocating for and raising awareness about ...
Created on 19 November 2024
8. My Story, My Voice
(News & Blog)
... and coming out against the practice. It gave me a lot of strength and courage. Being able to mingle and talk with these women and create a bond of love and sisterhood between us was one of the most powerful ...
Created on 05 November 2024
9. Perseverance and Power
(News & Blog)
... to speak out and raise awareness about the surgery. I wanted my fellow sisters to know that there is a surgery out there and that anything is possible no matter what you’ve gone through. It's not where ...
Created on 05 November 2024
10. Donor Spotlight: Brad Mazon
(News & Blog)
... is an issue that could affect them too. I have a little granddaughter and just the thought of her being cut or hurt forces me into action against this harm. I know that every man has either a mother, sister, ...
Created on 24 September 2024
11. Healing from Khatna with EMDR
(News & Blog)
... feel in your body?” I visualize the waiting room, the sliding doors, and my sister on my left side. She is small, and she is as scared as I am because nobody explained to us what was going to happen. ...
Created on 24 September 2024
12. Male Engagement within the Movement to End FGM/C: From Conversation to Connection: Creating a dialogue between men and women on FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... ones. So please educate yourself and know ignorance might cost your daughter, your sister, or your wife the future they deserve.   Related: Breaking the Silence: A Conversation with My Father About ...
Created on 16 September 2024
13. Starting the Dialogue: Sharing Your Experiences on Initiating Conversations with Men about Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... or younger sisters, overriding the influence of grandmothers and wives who might support the tradition. Additionally, men can freely discuss with other men why FGC is a harmful practice without fear of ...
Created on 21 June 2024
14. Exploring Diverse Narratives of FGM/C: A Virtual Voices Screening Event
(News & Blog)
... found out that it still happens in some communities around the globe, including the one my sister and I were raised in." - Hatim (Listen) "As of 2020, estimates are that at least 200 million women and ...
Created on 17 June 2024
15. Rally, Revel, Repeat : A Changemakers Retreat!
(News & Blog)
... conversations with fellow activists. Trading perspectives, bonding over shared trauma, and feeling that profound sense of sisterhood - it was deeply cathartic and healing.  The retreat also gave me the ...
Created on 19 May 2024
16. Our Fight to End FGM in The Gambia: Who is Listening?
(News & Blog)
... to last.  If certain politicians have their way, the law will soon disappear and more young children will have to suffer the same pain I did. Some, like my half-sister, may lose their lives. As a survivor ...
Created on 02 April 2024
17. Pathways to Progress: Community Engagement in Ending Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... FGM/C Project in Philadelphia Samman Masud, who is Sahiyo’s Community Engagement Coordinator Breanne Lash, who is the Director of Programs for Nile Sisters Development Initiative in Los Angeles and ...
Created on 05 March 2024
18. Staff Spotlight Community Engagement Coordinator: Samman Masud
(News & Blog)
... Sahiyo’s collaborations and with other sister organizations and other growing partnerships, I’m now more aware of FGC advocacy, and the landscape of gender-based violence work in general, as well as of ...
Created on 13 February 2024
19. Passion, Purpose, Party: My take on Sahiyo's Activists Retrea
(News & Blog)
... to me; there are other kindred souls out there too. The sense of sisterhood, profound empathy, and unadulterated opportunity to be vulnerable is what I will cherish for a long time to come.  I am hopeful ...
Created on 08 December 2023
20. PRESS RELEASE: Sahiyo publishes Examining the Current State of Critical Intersections: Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting and Social Oppressions report
(News & Blog)
... from the FGM/C sphere. Feminism: there are many complexities at the intersection of FGM/C and feminism.  Both the resister and accommodator of FGM/C may argue that their actions are aligned with Feminist ...
Created on 03 October 2023