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PC: Getty Images  the weapons used to disable our reproductive organ PC: Getty images  Dear Gambian men, my name is Clitoris. I am hosted by a generous and powerful being called a woman and I am located on the top of the vulva. Dear men, you called me many names such as the clit, happy button, knob, love button, sugar plum, devil’s doorbell etc. I am the spice that spices up the bedroom. Men across the globe love, respect and value me. I am their best friend because I make sexual intercourse easy for the feminine gender. However, Gambian Men do not know me because of the war against me which is as old as the country itself. Decades ago, when my host was born as a baby girl, I was eliminated immediately after birth in a tradition called Female Genital Mutilation. She grows up into a woman without me. When she becomes your wife, you wonder why she is not responding to your touches and vibe. You work harder on her body, touching and romancing all the places, yet you do not get the arous...

Gifts from Promise House Promise Team with Beneficiaries Promise Team Promise House Trust Team conducts a Christmas Outfit distribution drive to the SOS Children’s Village in Bakoteh and Sinchu Orphanage in the WCR. Speaking during the handing over ceremony on the 24th of December 2024, at the SOS Country Office, our Founder Pa Amang Sanneh took the audience into the background of the charitable trust and what it stands to achieve in the times ahead. The items donated to the beneficiaries include girls outfits, beverages and candies to be supplied to the wards over the festive season. Kissu Denton-Savage, Promise House Trust’s Goodwill Ambassador in the UK, thanked the SOS Children’s Village for its great work across the globe and Promise House Trust for such great initiative. She promised to work hand in glove with the team towards the attainment of its wider goals. Mrs. Mama Sillah- Nasso, former teacher to the late Jainaba Sanneh-Darboe in whose memory PHT is established, spoke high...

Tabu Njie-Sarr Country Director WFD Tabu Njie Sarr, the Country Director of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy has said that one of the factors that contribute to Intimate Partner Violence within the society in the Gambia is Socio-Cultural norms and Values. She was talking to this medium in an interview on Friday, 29th of November 2024 held at TANGO (the home of CSOs and NGOs). The world marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on 25th November 2024 beginning the 16 days of activism against Gender-Based Violence on the theme “every 10 minutes, a woman is killed, United to end violence against Women.” “Intimate Partner Violence can be associated with our socio-cultural norms and values because most of the violence that happens is not only limited to man to woman, but also woman to woman, Woman to man, and a parent to a child,” She said. She said violence cuts across all societies and individuals. She said research revealed that some of the factor...

  IPC Co-Chair, UNDP Project Manager and the Consultants A gender Strategy targeting to bridge the gender inequality gap and increase Women’s Representation in the Political Processes of the Gambia was validated on Tuesday, 19th of November 2024, by members of the Interparty Committee (IPC) Civil Society (CSOs), the Media, and Government stakeholders.  The validation, which took place at the Ocean Bay Hotel, at Cape Point, Bakau, is funded by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in the Gambia. The Consultants Matida and Ida Matida Komma one of the Lead Consultant taking the participants through the strategy, said, “ To close the gender inequality gap and increase women’s representation in the political processes, it is important to have a gender strategy that will guide political parties in The Gambia in the process of both candidate selection for elections and party leadership. This is important as political parties serve as ‘gatekeepers’ and facilitators to the seats of elec...

Group Photo of Participants   The Young Women’s Media Information Literacy Initiative (YoMIL), a project under the Media Academy for Journalism and Communication (MaJAC) started its first training of 30 Young Women in the Media and Advocacy in the Lower River Region of the Gambia from 8 th -10 th November 2024. The training held at the Mansawally Lodge in Pakalinding brought together Young Women Journalists, Public Health workers, Press Club Members, advocates, and activists working to advance the rights of Women and Girls in the Region. Meita Touray, YoMIL Project Manager During the Opening Remarks, Meita Touray Project Manager of the YoMIL said they are in LRR to train young women in different areas and Media Information Literacy. She said the reason why they are bringing only women is because they want to hear from them. She said sometimes young women working in the media face challenges and some of them feel uneasy about expressing themselves. She added that during the t...

women farmers of Saruja In Saruja, a vibrant community nestled in the Central River Region (CRR South), scores of women rice growers are highly optimistic for a bumper harvest this year. They made this disclosure to the P2-P2RS team on tour to beneficiary farming communities in regions.  These women rice farmers unreservedly extolled the Project Two to Strengthen Resilience to Food and Nutrition Insecurity in the Sahel (P2-P2RS) for putting the smile of joy and optimism on their faces as they anticipate to scoop from their farms.  The Saruja women farmers are among the many in the country who have been supported by the project with quality rice seeds and fertilizer earlier this year with the view to upscale their production capacities and resilience.  "We are so grateful for the support we have received from the P2-P2RS project. This year's season seems to be exceptional as we anxiously look forward to a bounteous harvest," said one of the farmers with a touch of exciteme...