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Working together to end female genital cutting
FGC: The story of abandonment.
The Orchid Project has a simple vision: a world free from female genital cutting (FGC).*
FGC is a globally recognised abuse of human rights, child rights and women’s rights. Nevertheless, 3 million girls a year are cut in Africa alone.
Orchid’s work aims to end the silence and taboo around FGC and to push for FGC to take the position it deserves: high on the priority list.
We want to shine the light on excellent work being done at country levels, where thousands of communities are choosing to abandon FGC.
This grassroots movement of communities abandoning FGC leads us to believe that it can be ended within a generation, in the same way that foot-binding ended.
Orchid’s aim is to enable an end to female genital cutting globally, with a significant reduction by 2025. Orchid will do this by:
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