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Board launches campaign to help women overcome FGM trauma

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Anti-FGM Board Chairperson Ipato Surum during during a media breakfast at a Nairobi hotel. [Courtesy]

As the world marks the International Day of the Girl on the October 11, 2024, the Anti-FGM Board will launch a campaign dubbed "Dear Daughter" in Kajiado county to sensitise mothers to stop passing on the FGM trauma to their daughters.

Anti-FGM Board CEO Bernadette Loloju said the campaign will encourage mothers who underwent the cut to write letters to their daughters and protect them from the harmful practice. The letter will read, "Dear daughter, even though I went through FGM trauma, I will not let you go through the same..."

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