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An update on how Covid-19 is affecting work against FGM in Tanzania
An update on how Covid-19 is affecting work against FGM in Tanzania
1.
Fighting
Female Genital Mutilation
During COVID-19
Update
2.
Updates since last webinar
• Confirmed COVID case
100m from Serengeti Safe
House, friend of staff
member.
• Reduced staff coming to
SH to lower risk.
• Quarantining new arrivals
where possible.
• But girls sleeping 2 to a
mattress.
3.
COVID Awareness in Community
• Outreach in villages
ongoing to talk about
need for handwashing
and social distancing
4.
Prosecutions
• 5 ongoing prosecutions
for FGM of family
members.
• 1 man sentenced to 30
years for rape. 16 year
old victim now at
Mugumu Safe House.
5.
Education
• No notice about when schools may
reopen, education difficult with
increased number of girls and reduced
staff.
• Vocational girls continuing to make
masks.
• Videoconferencing with British
Teachers on English Conversation
6.
Digital Champions:
• Reporting on situation in
the village
• Collecting information
about risk factors in each
village for research project
7.
ITNOYD film
• Shorter BBC version (Defying the
Cutting Season) shortlisted for
OneWorld Media award.
• Film screenings at FAWCO clubs