The Hope for Girls and Women team is very grateful and humbled to confirm that we have been selected as the Federation of American Women’s Clubs Overseas’ (FAWCO) Target Project running from 2020 until 2022.
FAWCO Member Clubs voted in February to select the 2020-2022 Target Project. Hope’s project: S.A.F.E. (Safe Alternatives for FGM Elimination) was selected from the three short-listed projects identified by the Target Selection Committee.
The two-year collaborative project between Hope and FAWCO will have the following objectives:
- Provide protection and health services to survivors of FGM and those at risk of undergoing the practice,
- Empower 500 families to embrace a life free from FGM for all family members through psychosocial counselling,
- Support 200 women and 300 girls who have already been cut to live healthy and fulfilled lives through psychosocial and healthcare support,
- Empower 5 local communities to adopt positive social norms which uphold the human rights and health of all community members through community sensitisation and public declarations against FGM by respected community leaders during 2 annual Alternative Rites of Passage (ARP) ceremonies over the two years of the project,
- Empower 50 girls and 50 women through economic generating activities for enhancing access to National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) plan and ability to pay costs related to health services.
With the global network that FAWCO offers, we can help to build awareness of the need to end FGM in Tanzania and across the world.
You can read the 2020 report ‘Annual S.A.F.E. report – in partnership with FAWCO‘ via the link here.
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