Dakar – Awa has never forgotten the day of her circumcision, at just nine years of age. « They cut me with a knife, without anaesthetic, with just a piece of cloth in my mouth to muffle my screams," she recalls.
Now, aged 25 and living in Kolda in the south of Senegal, Awa has become an activist against female genital mutilation (FGM), any procedure involving the partial or total removal of a woman's external genitalia, or any other injury to the female genital organs that is performed for non-medical reasons.
