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Funding for work on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

Rosa, in partnership with City Parochial Foundation and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, have collaborated to launch a new UK-wide special initiative to fund community-based preventive work to safeguard children from the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the UK.

The initiative is supporting organisations based within practising communities - in particular, women’s organisations. Approximately £1million has been invested in 15 organisations throughout the UK over a three-year period. The projects started in January 2010.

Maggie Baxter, Founder & Chair of Rosa, says of the initiative, 'For too long FGM has remained a subject couched in silence, with communities fearful to speak out about the practice and its implications. This initiative will support a wide range of community-based activities and is a huge step forward in supporting communities to have a voice, take a stand, and make lasting change.'

Baroness Ruth Rendell, Ambassador to the initiative, said, ‘It's wonderful to know of this FGM initiative. I find it extremely heartening that people are giving up their time and devoting their energy to working against FGM. It's very different now from what it was ten years ago when I first learnt of it and began to combat it. So many organisations, motivated by goodwill and deep sympathy with affected women, are making a difference. Determination of the kind shown by the FGM initiative will eventually have the hoped-for results.’