Increasing Girls Participation against FGM: Commit & Act Foundation-SL kick-off First Girl Conference
By: Alusine Rehme Wilson On Thursday, 21st April, 2022 the first ever Girls Conference begins at the Magburaka Boys School hall, in Tonkolili District, Northern Sierra Leone. The two days long (21st-22nd April, 2022) maiden Girls Conference is organized by Commit and Act Foundation-(CAF), a non-government organization championing campaigns against Female Genital Mutilation for the protection of girls in the Bo, Bombali and Tonkolili District with funds from German Doctors. In a powerpoint presentation delivered at the conference by Hannah Bockarie the founder and Country Director of Commit and Act Sierra Leone, she briefly reminisced on her journey with the foundation which she disclosed she has single handedly started in Bo in 2013 with the desire to proving assorted assistance to women and girls in Sierra Leone which she says she is very happy about now counting on the progress and lives its has impacted positively. “Today we've gathered to dialogue together with our girl...