By Tyson Conteh | Director
Dear GlobalGiving Community,
The Speaking through Dreams project has been long in the making but everyday stories keeps unveiling themselves to me which continues to make me more motivated to tell this story to the best of my abilities.
Sometime last year, 12 years old Marie died in the same way as my beloved Fatmata. It is also shocking to know that is actually the second child of her parents to die in two years in the hands of the same FGM initiation ritual.
I have recently traveled two times to this town called Mile 91 where the family stays. Our team has done interviews and observation filming with both parents, human rights activists who were involved on this issue and the police. I am going to highlight these stories in a BBC Africa Eye broadcast hour and we are going into edit mid-August this year. We plan to launch this important story to the world and follow up with our feature-length early next year.
Please continue to support this project and help us begin to shine a light on what is happening. i know these will be life saving efforts.
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