Addressing FGM trauma – The Standard

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Anti-FGM Board Chief Executive Officer Bernadette Loloju addressing participants during the launch of a psychosocial support document that will help training community health workers to be able to handle any issue of psychosocial nature especially mental health and issues of trauma for women and girls who have gone through female genital mutilation and my other form of gender-based violence in Maralal Town, Samburu County on December 30, 2021. [Michael Saitoti, Standard]

A guideline document has been launched to enable community health volunteers in the county handle issues affecting victims of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
“The document will help train community health workers to be able to handle any issue of psycho-social nature, especially mental health and issues of trauma for women and girls who have gone through female genital mutilation and any other forms of gender-based violence,” said Anti-FGM Board CEO Bernadette Loloju.
She said girls in the country are at a high risk of being subjected to FGM during this season since they are at home.
She said the government is taking action against perpetrators of FGM.
“We have five people who are in court, three of them have been jailed for three years or given an option of cash bail of Sh500,000,” she added.
Josphine Lengopito from World Vision said that elders from the Samburu community are fully implementing a presidential directive of ending FGM by 2022.
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