Girls who escaped FGM reunite with their families after two years

DAR ES SALAAM, Dec. 6 -- FIVE girls who were sheltered at Hope for Girls and Women Tanz ania (HGWT) centre in Serengeti District for two years, after escaping from the Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) ritual have finally rejoined their families.

Besides surviving from undergoing FGM, the young girls have successful attended a special training on vocational and entrepreneurship provided with the support of HGWT.

HGWT is a non- governmental organisation (NGO) that fights FGM, child marriages and other Gender Based Violence (GBV) acts in Serengeti, Butiama and other parts of Mara Region. The NGO hosted a graduation ceremony for the girls in Mugumu on Friday last week.

"We received these girls as victims of FGM at our centre but today they ar...