16 September 2015 | Uncategorized
The village of Banfélé is located about 10 kilometers outside of the urban municipality of Faranah in Guinea. It is in this small village of four households where eight-year-old Karamo Keïta lives. He comes from a family of three children, all of whom are boys. Like...
27 July 2015 | Uncategorized
On June 14th, 2015 the Sangardo community in Guinea–with the generous support of UNICEF–hosted a Public Declaration. This declaration included 65 participating communities, all expressing their abandonment of female genital cutting (FGC) and child...
25 June 2015 | Uncategorized
This story is a follow-up from a piece on Elhadji Rokitall in October of 2014. Since 1998, Elhadji Rokitall has run a daara, or Koranic boarding school, in Niobène Tallène, a village in the Kaolack region of Senegal. More recently, however, he was named the President...
24 February 2015 | Uncategorized
Tostan’s work was recently featured by the prominent Swedish journal, Dagens Nyheter. We’ve included an excerpt translated into English below. You can access the article in Swedish here, or download Tostan’s full English translation here. ...