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Victim of FGM tells MPs safe houses are needed for at-risk girls (16 October 2014)
Date: 16/10/2014
A victim of female genital mutilation (FGM) had told MPs that African girls at risk of FGM need safe houses to protect them from being cut.
The Evening Standard reports that 42-year-old Rhobi Samwelly nearly died after she underwent FGM in her home country Tanzania at the age of 12.
Ms Samwelly was addressing the all-party parliamentary group for FGM and said that she is currently creating a safe house in Tanzania for girls at risk of FGM.
She said she was cut at the age of 12 because she had nowhere to escape to.
“I wanted to run away, but I knew that there was nowhere safe to go – and so I very sadly told my parents I would follow the family tradition and have FGM.”
As a result of the procedure, she nearly died because of heavy bleeding. She persuaded her parents not to allow her sisters to undergo FGM – and began a campaign in Tanzania to stop the practice in the Mara region of the country.
FGM is illegal in Tanzania, but is still widespread in Mara, with around half the girls in the region at risk from FGM, according to the UK charity 28 Too Many.
Ms Samwelly said the safe house she is setting up will accommodate up to 40 girls, allowing each to remain there for a year while staff try and persuade their families not to cut them.
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