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1. Walking Together: My Experience at the Annual Walk to End Female Genital Mutilation in D.C.
(News & Blog)
By Samman Masud This year, I had the wonderful opportunity to participate in the Annual Walk to End Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), held in Washington, D.C. on September 28th, 2024. The sense of community ...
Created on 17 October 2024
2. Reflecting on a Screening of The Beginning, a Film Directed by Sahiyo Co-founder Insia Dariwala
(News & Blog)
... The film is currently being screened at various festivals around the world and has already won four awards and three official selections globally. A large group of attendees from different walks of life ...
Created on 27 August 2024
3. Reflections after sharing my story during the Psychosocial Impacts of FGM/C Webinar
(News & Blog)
... meal, a comforting TV show, or a mindless walk through the grocery store. Today, I wanted to describe what I am feeling and release some of this tension through writing.  As the years have passed, the ...
Created on 19 May 2024
4. It's a Marathon, Not a Rac
(News & Blog)
... against this horrendous practice. I want my story to captivate the attention of people from different walks of life. I hope that it will inspire survivors to share their stories, allies to render their ...
Created on 12 January 2024
5. My experience at the Global Woman Awards and Walk to End FGM
(News & Blog)
By Rachel Wine On September 30th, I had the honor of joining survivors, activists, and allies from around the world to participate in the 9th Annual Global Woman Awards the 10th Annual Walk to End FGM. ...
Created on 03 October 2023
6. Volunteer spotlight: Editorial intern Urvashi Sharma
(News & Blog)
...  What was your experience of learning about FGC for the first time like? I was fourteen and had just finished reading Alice Walker’s Possessing the Secret of Joy. Like most reactions to learning about ...
Created on 25 August 2022
7. Activists Retreat Reflection: Umme's experienc
(News & Blog)
... almost dreaded doing, because it cemented the feeling of walking into a den of lions. I wondered if I would be judged as harshly as I feel I am by the Bohra community I know, by my extended family, by ...
Created on 29 July 2022
8. Bhaiyo Spotlight: Honoring Donald Strong
(News & Blog)
... walked into any meeting, within five minutes, he made sure everyone knew one another and how we were all connected. I remember we were giving a presentation at the UN about FGM/C, and the storytelling ...
Created on 15 November 2021
9. Sahiyo Partner Spotlight: Global Woman P.E.A.C.E. Foundation
(News & Blog)
... is to empower women and girls through education to help eradicate gender-based violence with sole focus on female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). GWPF created the Walk To End FGM, the first of its ...
Created on 17 November 2020
10. Voices Series: Why your story is worth sharing
(News & Blog)
... Voices to End FGM/C enables those who have been affected by female genital mutilation/cutting to tell their stories through their own perspectives, in their own words. By Mariam Sabir  I walked into ...
Created on 08 July 2020
11. Missing Link
(News & Blog)
... understand ways to take action– it has become a movement. A movement that I want to walk with. While energy can subside, the power of one weekend still buzzes in my heart. Knowledge, trauma, empowerment, ...
Created on 10 September 2019
12. My mother thought she was saving me with khafz
(News & Blog)
... with the other hand. My Mom did salaam to the lady with an envelope filled with money and we began to leave.  I walked out very slowly holding my mother’s hand and we began to descend the staircase. ...
Created on 20 June 2019
13. The experience of hosting my very own Thaal Pe Charcha
(News & Blog)
By Xenobia Country of Residence: India Earlier this year in January, I attended the Sahiyo’s Activist Retreat in Mumbai, where I met some brilliant, fantastic people from all walks of life. Women shared ...
Created on 16 April 2019
14. My experience at the Sahiyo U.S. Activist Retreat made me reflect on my khatna
(News & Blog)
... It’s been decades, but the memory is vivid. We walked up the stairs. There were two women at the house. One held my hand. The other pulled down my panties. I remember crying. It drowned out what was happening ...
Created on 06 April 2019
15. Experiencing Sahiyo’s Activist Retreat in Mumbai
(News & Blog)
... female genital mutilation (FGM).  Needless to say, I couldn’t stop talking about this retreat when I returned home! There were some brilliant, fantastic people there from all walks of life, sharing their ...
Created on 07 March 2019
16. How doctors responded to my genital mutilation: An American woman's 70-year journe
(News & Blog)
... because she saw my strangely mutilated body. I didn’t provide details because there were thin curtains separating me from other patients. A couple of weeks later, we read that she walked into a lake and ...
Created on 26 February 2019
17. Global Women P.E.A.C.E Foundation 5K Walk Against FGM
(News & Blog)
Each year, the Global Women P.E.A.C.E. Foundation hosts a 5K Walk Against FGM in Washington, D.C., and activists working to end FGC around the world come to participate. This year, the event was extended ...
Created on 03 December 2018
18. U.S. Court's dismissal of FGM/C charge in Michigan case is disappointing, but does not condone genital cuttin
(News & Blog)
... of Sahiyo Stories, a collection of digital stories created by U.S. women who have undergone FGC or who have loved ones who have undergone it. After those videos were shown at the screening, a couple walked ...
Created on 21 November 2018
19. Sahiyo Volunteer nominated for The Global Woman Student Ambassador Award
(News & Blog)
Sahiyo’s Maria Akhter has been nominated to receive the Global Woman Award in the “Student Ambassador” category, on Friday, October 26, 2018, in Washington, D.C.  The awards are given by the Global Woman ...
Created on 05 July 2018
20. Building the data on Female Genital Cutting in the Bohra Community
(News & Blog)
... Participants who had undergone the practice reported painful urination, physical discomfort, difficulty walking, and bleeding to be the immediate effects after having undergone FGM/C. In the long-term, ...
Created on 19 February 2018