Amazonian Initiative Movement, eine mutige lokale Initiative gegen die weibliche Genitalbeschneidung in Sierra Leone

Amazonian Intitiative Movement (AIM) ist eine unabhängige Frauenrechtsorganisation, die ihren Arbeitsschwerpunkt auf die Überwindung der weiblichen Genitalbeschneidung legt. Hierbei handelt es sich um eine schädliche traditionelle Praxis, von der über 90 Prozent der Mädchen und Frauen Sierra Leones betroffen sind. Daneben engagiert sich die Organisation auch gegen andere FrauenMenschenrechtsverletzungen wie Zwangsverheiratung und Gewalt in der Ehe. Seinen Hauptsitz hat AIM in dem kleinen Ort Lunsar im Port Loko Distrikt der Northern Region, etwa 80 km östlich von der Hauptstadt Freetown gelegen.

Wir laden herzlich ein auf diesen Seiten mehr über AIM, die weibliche Genitalbeschneidung und Sierra Leone zu erfahren!

 

Konferenzbericht "FrauenMenschenrechtsarbeit in Afrika & Deutschland"

Nachruf für WINIFRED ALPHA - 1978-2010

WINIFRED ALPHA IS GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

 

Miss Me, But Let Me Go

 

When I come to the end of the road,
and the sun has set for me.
I want no rites in a gloom-filled room.
Why cry for a soul set free?

 

I am free from the struggles of this world,
Miss me a little—but not too long,
and not with your head bowed low.
Remember the love that was once shared.
Miss me, but let me go.

 

For this is a journey we all must take,
and each must go alone.
It’s all a part of the master’s plan,
a step on the road to home.
When you are lonely and sick of heart because of me,
go to the friends we know.
Bear your sorrow in good deeds.

 

 Miss me, but let me go.

 

 “Do not stand by my corpse or at my grave and cry”

 

Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there, I am not there
I am a 1,000 winds that blow
I am the diamond glints on snow
I am the sun on ripened grain
I am the gentle rain

 

I am in the relentless battle for women and children rights

 

I am in the battle against harmful traditional practices

 

I am in the battle against FGM/C

 

I am in the fight against maternal and infants’ mortality rates in Sierra Leone

 

The latter transport me violently to my grave

 

It kills my mortal body but it can not kill my fight to eliminate it amongst the women folk in Port Loko

 

I am with you to free women and children from violence
when you awaken in the morning's hush

 

When you are in the villages to campaign against FGM/C
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds that rove above your head in circled light

 


I am the forest that surrounds the villages

 

I am the soft star that shines at night
Do not stand at my grave and cry
Though my mortal remains are forcefully laid to rest

 

 Yet my spirit and fight are not

 

My aim to fight FGM/C is alive….

 

Miss Me, But Let Me Go

[BY PASTOR JAMES KUNDUNO]

[FGC PROJECT COORDINATOR]