Part of a webinar in May 2020, Rhobi Samwelly's presentation

1. Fighting
Female Genital Mutilation
During COVID-19
Update

2. Updates since last webinar
• Confirmed COVID case
100m from Serengeti Safe
House, friend of staff
member.
• Reduced staff coming to
SH to lower risk.
• Quarantining new arrivals
where possible.
• But girls sleeping 2 to a
mattress.

3. COVID Awareness in Community
• Outreach in villages
ongoing to talk about
need for handwashing
and social distancing

4. Prosecutions
• 5 ongoing prosecutions
for FGM of family
members.
• 1 man sentenced to 30
years for rape. 16 year
old victim now at
Mugumu Safe House.

5. Education
• No notice about when schools may
reopen, education difficult with
increased number of girls and reduced
staff.
• Vocational girls continuing to make
masks.
• Videoconferencing with British
Teachers on English Conversation

6. Digital Champions:
• Reporting on situation in
the village
• Collecting information
about risk factors in each
village for research project

7. ITNOYD film
• Shorter BBC version (Defying the
Cutting Season) shortlisted for
OneWorld Media award.
• Film screenings at FAWCO clubs

8. Rhobi Samwelly
mndlutume@gmail.com
@HopeForGirlsTZ