GlobalFGM is pleased to announce its innovative winners📢 Congratulations to all the winners of #EndFGM innovative activities for the #16DaysofActivism2022 Each innovator will receive grant 💲 funding to grow & scale their activities to #EndFGM. Thanks to UNFPA UNFPA-UNICEF JP to End Female Genital Mutilation

🎥 community youth dialogue in the village by one of our grant winners in Kenya. Michael Kishoyian UNFPA WCARO #implementation #youth4youth #Endfgm

FGM continues to harm African women and girls, and Sierra Leone is no exception. We are united in seeing its ending. Join us! StandUp! SayNoToFGM! #UnitedToEndFGM.

Headquartered in Sierra Leone, Purposeful has an ever-growing team based across the Continent, from Latin America and the Arab States to a small admin office in the UK. Neither a fully remote team nor office based, we are joyfully somewhere in-between 🥳 #PurposefulAt5 Meet Lau!

Excited to welcome new members to our Purposeful team this week - looking forward to introducing them! 😎🥳. Plus, jumping for joy as Antonia Howard Antonia Howard of AYV Media acclaim joins as Comms & Media Manager. Meet her here! 💕 #feministsolidarity #PurposefulAt5

Last week we got a message that a 14 years old JSS3 girl, Theresa Tarawalie from Kono District lost her life after undergoing FGM. On Friday, her remains were brought to Freetown to do an autopsy or post-mortem.........

On Monday, we got the result that the 14 years old girl died of chronic blood loss through Female Genital Mutilation. She bleeds for 14 days without medical support and food. Today, it's in the newspaper that, she died because of FGM. May Her Soul Rest in peace. #EndFGM

GlobalFGM PRESS STATEMENT ON THE GRUESOME DEATH OF 14-YEAR OLD THERESA TARAWALI FOLLOWING #FGM IN KEINSAY COMMUNITY, KOIDU CITY, KONO DISTRICT, EASTERN PROVINCE OF SIERRA LEONE Barram H. E. Fatima Maada Bio UNFPA in Sierra Leone Press Link bit.ly/3WGctJE

..there's dire need as well for them to address the health & wellbeing of its citizenry most especially girls & women that the society as made to be the most marginalized & vulnerable groups. They're currently faced with issues of FGM, identified.👇 #RippleProject UNFPA Nigeria

Celebrating #WorldRadioDay & the power of radio 📻to change lives. Our political, feminist, girl-centred talk show and drama series is in its 4th season, lifting up the power and possibility of girlhood. Read our first quick publication drop: we-are-purposeful.medium.com/celebrating-wo… UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳

Amazing! This is the first time i’m eating Olele outside of Sierra Leone 🥲Tears of joy! My Ghanaian cook watched the YouTube video I sent her (it had no measurement of ingredients😂) and still made it perfectly. Leaf was hard to fill so we mixed to plastic. Delicious!🤤

“#Blackgirls & #women deserve role models to feel they belong in #STEM. We’re building a #movement of women to change this. In 4yrs, we’ve trained 8000 women in 33 countries, including 18 in Africa” Founder, Black Sisters in STEM Diana (Nyamekye) Wilson on Closing the #GenderGap in STEM

We will stop at nothing to end gender inequality & if #men join this cause the future is brighter. As we commemorate #IWD23, it's my honor to be engaging & addressing 700+ young diplomats, dignitaries & delegates at the United Nation Complex #UNComplex 🇰🇪 #EndGBV #BreakTheBias

Happy International Women’s Day!! Celebrating this year with so much joy as @Jojojazzmeen brings the heart and soul of Purposeful to her mainstage opening of WOW - Women of the World this Friday to kick-off 3 days with world-class speakers, activists and artists. #WOWLDN #IWD

Sharing our most esteemed 🔥 line-up for tomorrow’s #CSW67 event. So excited for this discussion in re-imagining how we programme, listen & learn - how we build power with and for girls. Join us at UNHQ! Ireland at UN Fergal Mythen - Ambassador of Ireland to the UN ministermanty Nyawira Erin Kenny

Our next newsletter is about to burst out of the door and you may want to get yourself signed up!🥰 Just follow the web link: eepurl.com/gXK5PT #FeministSolidarity #PurposefulAt5

Young people are often left out of the decisions that affect them the most. Here are my proposals to ensure more meaningful, diverse and effective youth participation in decision-making at all levels.

Congratulations Chernor Bah. You deserve it🤗🤩💖💕

Indeed you have been a positive person from the beginning. Kudos Chernor Bah 💖🤗🥰

Femme Collective mourns the death of Sia Kamara, who tragically lost her life to intimate partner violence on Tuesday 13th August. We call for an end to violence against women and girls in Sierra Leone. #JusticeForSia