'I'll save another girl by talking about female genital mutilation'
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But after ceremonies of music and drumming, in which she danced, she was shocked to be pinned down and cut between her legs. She bled for three days afterwards and, in her case, the cutting had to be repeated.Returning home, she said she became a "very angry child" and the seeds of activism were sown. She began to rebel, soon warning other girls: "Don't go".
Mrs Karim-Kamara includes men in her extensive outreach work in multicultural Peckham, which has among the highest rates of women with FGM in London. Det Con Gill Squires, who combats FGM in the West Midlands, first met Mrs Karim-Kamara in person at a training event where she told her experience to border force officers trying to protect girls at airports who may be at risk during "cutting season"."She is my hero, she really is."
"This is her giving permission for professionals, from a community perspective, to go and challenge this," said the officer."As a survivor, doing this work and talking about the experience is part of healing. To have the support of someone like Gill is amazing," she said.
As well as continued training to give frontline workers confidence, she said change to stop FGM would come through awareness in schools, charities and grassroots organisations, who she said needed much more funding.
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