Raising Awareness Tour report – Education without Cutting
Sister Fa and her band have been travelling through Senegal for over three weeks to play concerts and to attract attention to the very sensitive topic of female genital cutting. Their aim was to sensitize the population in Sister Fa’s homeland and to draw their attention to the negative consequences of such practice. Besides the many concerts at different places that were received with great applause and attended by thousands of listeners her biggest success was, in cooperation with the NGO Tostan, that the inhabitants of her home village Thionck Essyl – which had been carrying out the cutting persistently – now officially abandoned this practice of cutting the young girls.
Further on Sister Fa carried out her program of sensitization in various schools in the southern region and in the Senegalese media with life interviews and listener participation.
