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Commmunities have publicly declared abandonment of Female Genital Cutting and Child marriage.
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Abandoning Female Genital Cutting: ‘It wasn’t the fear of prison that changed things’
THIARAP, Senegal — Under a makeshift shelter that offers little relief from the heat of this June morning, Samba Baldé turns a string of prayer beads slowly between his fingers. Around him, village elders fan themselves against the humid air settling over Thiarap, a small rural community in Fouladou, southern Senegal. In a matter of days, this village and 26