Fighting for a generation without female genital mutilation

To mark the Day of the African Child on 16 June, which this year focuses on eliminating harmful practices, Plan’s Madina Bocoum Daff blogs about the fight to end female genital mutilation (FGM) in Mali.

"Woman has to suffer, woman has to endure". We grew up listening to these words of my mother almost every day.

It was this way of thinking that my sisters and I, as so many other generations of women before us, had to grow up with.

Læs resten her!