UGANDA: 'Surgeons' Want Compensation Before They Lay Down Their Knives
This article shocked me so much.
In short, it is about old Ugandan women who will not stop cutting, because it is a form of income for them, besides the fact that FGM is against the law.
A sentence of 10 years is the new proposed law for anyone involved in the act.
Though this law is really great and working hard towards the abolishment of FGM,
elderly women in their 60's highly depend on the money they get from each family to survive. They are stuck in old barbaric ays and don't understand why it is a bad thing. The Government should also propse new jobs and pensions for these women.
...If the law can ever help.
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4 comments:
It's just so sad isn't it. These women know nothing else, so no wonder they dont see how harmful it is. But i'd never heard of mentors before?
"It is our work to delude the girls through some kind of performances so they gain the courage to face the knife."
It makes me cringe that they actually lie to these young girls to make it seem ok.
I just don't understand how the prevalance rates can still be as high as they are, even when there are stats on the casualites from the practice. Or even the fact that in some cases it is crippling?
It's just like conflicts between or within different countries; it's such a complicated thing to understand, unless you are one of them. These people are conditioned so that they know nothing else and its just what seems right to them.
But it does seem that there are generational trends that see a demise in the practice, so hopefully its not completely impossible to get rid of the procedure!
Yeah i think it is something that needs a lot of time to change. Like our other article abou the women's group who used to be the cutters and now are against it, it takes small steps. When you've grown up with a natural practise all your life and suddenly someone from a different country tells you its wrong,you can't possibly listen to the when everyone around you believes it. Yeah it sucks the prevelance rates are still so high. Its so hard not to judge something so barbaric and think of it as something so natural to them, is it not?
yeah thats it. i think it all comes down to awareness and education. we take it for granted so much here. no wonder we see it as so barbaric and primative, education is so much more accessible for us.
Lately, since I did my interview with Mum, I've looked at a few articles on fistula patients. And its the same kind of thing. I'd reccommend having a look at some, its easy if you just google the term 'fistula'. There's also a book I've read, 'the Hospital by the River'. Its actually about the hospital my mum visited in Ethiopia that deals with fistula patients. Its such a sad story, but it shows how poverty stricken Africa really is, and how women are so oppressed within the country.
Yeah i've heard about that book.
Yeah i think education is key to change the ways they think.
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