DAR ES SALAAM, Nov. 20 -- A NON-Governmental Organisation, Reaching the Unreachable Tanzanian (RUT), has launched a project against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Dodoma Region, a crucial initiative which has so far reached out to at least 963 people since its inception in July this year.
Dubbed 'FGM Free Generation Project' (FFGP), the one-year program under the auspices of Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) seeks to free Kondoa and Kongwa districts from high-profile atrocities against women and adolescent girls.
FGM covers all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injuries to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
Such practices are defined as violence against the right o...