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A long way to go towards Zero Tolerance to FGM in Somalia but there is hope!

By Fatima Bashir- FGM Programme Manager- Save the Children Somalia

Laila is a 35 year old mother of twelve children who lives in Laanta-Hawada Village in Bossaso, Somalia. Every morning, she waves goodbye to her children as they leave for school, but one thing that is always on her mind is paying the school fees for her children.

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Garowe-December 19,2018: Hon. Drs. Marian Ahmed Ali, Minister of women development and family affairs launched the first ever Puntland Plan of Action for Children (PPAC) designed specifically to achieve Government’s commitment to make Puntland the best place for children in Somalia.

For Saynab, a 16-year-old class seven pupil at Kalabayr Primary School, going to school means everything to her. She gets excited just thinking of spending another day in school, learning and playing with friends. She has big dreams for herself. She wants to be an English Teacher.

"I was only six years old when I experienced the worst nightmare of my life. Something that left me filled with grief and fear,’’ says Laki Muse* as she recalls how she left her home in Ethiopia to seek refuge in neighboring Somalia.