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41. 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
42. 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
43. 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
44. 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
45. 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
46. 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
47. 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
48. Sahiyo’s Mariya Taher receives Survivor Activist Award
(News & Blog)
On Saturday, October 2, the Global Woman P.E.A.C.E. Foundation recognized Sahiyo Cofounder, Mariya Taher with the Survivor Activist Award at their annual 5K Walk to End FGM Charity Event in Washington ...
Created on 08 December 2017
49. ‘I feel dirty and violated’: A Bohra survivor of Female Genital Cutting shares her story
(News & Blog)
... excited. So we set out, my nani and I, on a little walk around the block. She explained to me that we were going to see an older lady who was going to help me with something that was for my own benefit. ...
Created on 08 November 2017
50. Khatna among Suleimanis, from the perspective of an 'outsider
(News & Blog)
... longer affected… But there is a problem of course … You cannot really walk up to a woman and ask outright, can you? It is considered a deeply private matter. So it seems many men in the community are ...
Created on 11 March 2017
51. 'I am relieved more parents are saying no to female circumcision'
(News & Blog)
... but my underwear was gone. After putting me through that ordeal, they asked me to get up and try to walk in my clothes but without my underwear.   The thought of going through this so-called “religious ...
Created on 22 September 2016
52. Receiving the 'Daughter of Maharashtra' award: Sahiyo co-founder shares her experienc
(News & Blog)
... Sahiyo was the last recipient of this award. The venue at ILS Law College was teeming with women from different walks of life, and rightly so, since the other recipient of this award was Chhaya Tamchekar, ...
Created on 06 August 2016