Awareness to FGM

This is a story of one victim who she passed through the hard time and still she survived

“My #FGM Torture💔

"I Was Just 7 When My Genital Was To Be Sewn Up Without Anesthesia BUT My Mom Said, '...do not shame me, and do not scream!'"

Valeline recounts;

"I was genitally mutilated at the age of seven! When I saw the old, heavily flexed woman coming to the camp underthe great acacia tree, suddenly I became afraid.

I saw her spreading out a cloth and putting on it a bag with ashes, a can with sticky paste, some acacia thorns and a half razor blade.

My mother pointed to the place in front of her. I should sit down there and then I heard hersaying: 'Be a good girl, do not shame me, and do not scream!'

Then it all happened very quickly. My aunt and my mother held me and in my head an untold pain – a pain I can still clearly feel after more than 30 years.

This pain has only one advantage, that you faint!

After first step, I was unable to respond, did not feel anything of what was done, cut, and sewed.

However, when I woke up my legs from the ankles to the hips were strongly wrapped around. I should not move so that the wound could heal. All was hurtful, and only then the real torture had began.

Just a hole not bigger than the head of a needle should remain so that urine and blood can flow off.

But to me, not even that remained and so the day after, the procedure was repeated to reopen a part of the suture. Probably this way the wound inflamed.

For weeks, I had high fever, and the wound suppurated. And while I was struggling against death – my mother even bought me a shroud.

However, I did not die. But I could not jump around as I did before, I could not help my family anymore, and what was worse, I could not follow them through the desert anymore”

So let's help women from my area to fight for their right because it has being a daily routine reporting from Mara_Tarime in Tanzania