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ABLATION, How long?






Every minute four girls suffer
ablation
* NGOs working in 28 countries to convince that female initiation rituals performed without physical mutlilaciones.
* Consists of the cut with a knife from the lips of the vagina.
* Today is World Day against genital cutting.

Vashty Lechuta is 17 and is Marigat, Kenya. Three years ago his uncle arranged her marriage and planned an initiation ritual Prior to watching the traditional genital mutilation. Vashty ran to ask her mother to prevent it. Because the mother had attended the lectures of the NGO World Vision Vashty could enter a program that funds studies of girls whose families refuse to make them go through this terrible crippling habit.
Two million girls a year suffer genital mutilation in the world
Vashty
The case is still the exception in 28 African countries where widespread cultural tradition of genital cutting. Although more and more countries banning it, his roots is such that more than 130 million women, according to the UN, have personally suffered mutilation your vagina. A rate of two million each year, NGOs reported on the World Day against circumcision. Just today

been known to Gambia, a country where most ablations are performed, has changed its policy held in the last ten years to prevent any public awareness campaign against this practice and will consider implementing a research project led by a Catalan to propose an alternative rite of passage but physical mutilation. Four girls

every minute

Claudia Moreno, Spain World Vision, NGO support for children in Kenya, welcomed last year to 200 families Marigat ablation renounce their daughters and opt for an alternative rite of passage. The step taken to help these women, says Moreno, "be able to break the cycle of poverty which is a ritual of ablation, which is always the prelude to an early marriage and an abrupt departure from the education system at 10 or 12 years. "

A force without anesthesia and with unsterilized blades cut them lips of the vagina

Although there are various types of ablation, the most widespread is the part that is a ritual performed on girls between 10 and 12. "A force without anesthesia and with a knife in many cases without sterilization, is a cut the lips of the vagina, "says Claudia Moreno." Girls do not understand how her mother and other women make them go through something so painful. "They do, says Moreno, for fear that they remain single, because men still do not accept women as wives who have not gone through that female circumcision.

Today Lechuta Vashty combines computer science studies in Kabarak, Kenya, awareness talks to other mothers about the ablation. Theirs is a success story, not those of the other four girls in the time taken to read this information (1 minute) have undergone genital mutilation worldwide.