Debbo e Bawde

Debbo e Bawde (Women and Power in Fufulde) is a non-profit organisation led by Dioro Cisse. Based in the Ségou region in Mali, it is newly active and fights to combat Female Genital Mutilation in the country, where 89 percent of girls and women aged 15 to 49 have undergone FGM. 

Debbo e Bawde's mission is to reduce in order to put an end to FGM through awareness and legal action.

Save Our Girls funds projects carried out by Debbo e Bawde such as:

• Community interventions with various guests (doctors, religious leaders, lawyers, mayor etc) to: 

  • discuss the dangers of FGM and try to come to an agreement within the community to abandon the practice

  • train these profesionnal to ensure medican, psychological, and legal support to the affected young women and girls

• Radio Shows: discussions with guests of different fields (doctor religious leaders, lawyers, mayor etc) on the harmful effects of FGM, specifically health related.