Meet the mother who protected her daughters from the FGM cut after awareness

Nimao is a resident of a camp for the displaced in Burao. She admits to planning to make her daughters undergo FGM, in keeping with the family’s and community tradition. “I wanted for my daughters to undergo the practice, the same way my parents made me,” she admits.

After participating in a World Vision FGM awareness session, something changed in me. I understood the dangers of the practice. That’s when I decided I wouldn’t put my daughters through FGM.

After participating in a World Vision FGM awareness session Nimao says she understood the dangers of FGM practice and vowed to protect her daughters. 

Nimao is now an active community champion against FGM practice. She does house-to-house outreach holding heart-to-heart conversations with mothers and girls on FGM.

“I use such opportunities, speaking as a mother to a mother, compelling them to take an active role in protecting their daughters from FGM,” Nimao says.

She has rescued more than 30 girls from undergoing FGM, after persuading their parents not to go through with it.