Fighting Genital Cutting Of British Girls: A Survivor Speaks Out [NPR.org]

Samantha Sangenito 8/6/144:00 AM

When Nimco Ali was 7, she thought her family was going on vacation. They flew from their hometown in Manchester, England, to Djibouti on the Horn of Africa.

Ali doesn't remember the exact location. But she clearly remembers what happened there.

The young girl found herself in a dingy room, with a woman dressed in all black, standing over her. She didn't know what was going on at the time. But she fell asleep. And when Ali woke up, she was confused.

The woman had mutilated her genitals.

Ali is British to the core: She was raised in Britain and went to British schools. But her family is from Somalia — where 98 percent of girls and women have a part of their genitals cut, mutilated or completely removed.

[For more of this story, written by Linda Poon, go to http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/08/05/336040358/fighting-genital-cutting-of-british-girls-a-survivor-speaks-out]

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