World day of zero tolerance to Female Genital mutilation.

-Education is the only effective way of discontinuation of the practice of female circumcision

Madrid, February 2012.- female genital mutilation or cutting involves partial or total removal of the external sexual organs of women. It is a custom that currently runs in many countries of Africa and Asia. This brutal practice is intended to control women’s sexual desire, and what is more, the total submission of women to family and husband. This perverse custom is requirement essential to many tribes to ensure that women find a husband and as a full entry in the lives of adults and community. If they do not accept to be mutilated, they are rejected and treated as undesirable and in most cases they are expelled from their parental home and abandoned.

The practice of female circumcision is done for religious reasons, tradition or simply for aesthetics and affects women of all ages. It is estimated that every year about 3,000,000 girls in the world are victims of this practice.

Female genital mutilation has consequences for health, both in the short term (excessive bleeding that can cause death, pain and trauma that can lead to state of shock, infections such as tetanus, even AIDS due to unhygienic conditions during practice) and long-term (infections of the reproductive tract that can cause sterility)(, and complications in childbirth). It is psychologically trauma that lasts a lifetime and of course prevents full and satisfactory sexual intercourse.

Only education can do that this practice should be eradicated definitively, therefore KIRIRA Foundation annually performs an educational campaign in Kenya, complemented with a health campaign. Therefore, and on the occasion of the international day against Female Genital mutilation, held on 6 February, Kirira Foundation calls upon collaboration in projects being made in Kenya.

Kirira Foundation also has other side projects, aimed at the eradication of FGM.

-Through his scholarships plan aims to girls at risk of being mutilated, may pursue their studies and not be married at ages.

-A reception House, where girls who flee the ablation can take refuge. It is also home for orphans.

-Installation of solar panels in schools, which will facilitate that girls can study.

-Creation of a farm that will allow food self-sufficiency.