Thursday, October 29, 2009

FGM happening here!

I was woken up this morning by a call from a hospital ..on the background I could here a woman's cry...and the doctor asked me to talk to the lady who insisted to only talk to me as am the only one who can understand..so I asked her name and I greeted her she started crying and asking me to help her...she said she poops and urinate from the same hole and she cannot control her bowels or urine and her vagina muscles were so painful! this are calls I never wish to take but these is my calling....her husband who is a strict muslim had insisted on her FGM and to honor her husband she did it..and from that day she lost all her feelings..and everyday the husband complains she is not satisfying her in bed! so this man started to have Anal sex with her because that end was tighter and warmer...OMG! she started developing problems and now she is left open...doctors are working hard to help her...this cruelity and inhumane culture and religious manipulation for how long will it go on I am sick and disgusted ! I swear I will fight FGM to the very end! I will be visiting her this evening in her home....

Me and my Congo family... their first christmas ever from the refugee camp.last years Christmas
courtsey of Mashua voice for the voiceless

The other call was from a familiar voice a close friend of mine she always complain of stomach issues and I asked her did they mutilate you? she said yes it happened 5 years ago by her in laws right here in the US! and from then she has suffered painful intercourse and painful unhappy Vagina! she was crying in pain asking me mama Tumaini (Hope) kindly help me...I don't know what my in laws did to me inside my vagina it hurts I have miscarriaged four times I feel like am dying slowly please take me to a doctor who can help me...when I urinate it hurts! O.M.G my heart broke and I couldn't breath I had to talk to Ines Laufer who is an FGM Butt kicker! to help me cool down.... again this is a muslim woman..she was told if she was not going to be mutilated things will go bad... now both women are so scared of their families they just want to be treated and reconstructive surgeries!

FGM brainwashes people, it makes people be filled with fear,despair , while it kills slowly...coz FGM is a silent killer:((((((

Ambassador Lucy .s .Mashua President of Mashua's voice for the voiceless International
Assisting refugees in the US and representation in advocasy
The Global Ambassador for fighting Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and standing up for Women’s Rights.
And the Chairperson of a worldwide campaign against FGM.
http://twitter.com/Mashua
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mashua-Against-FGM/225406701415

Monday, October 26, 2009

Testimonies from FGM survivors...




Fatma's Story... America's next top model cycle 10
When I was 8 years old , my two sisters ,myself and our mother went to visit our family back home .I assumed we were going for a holiday. A bit later we were told that we were going to be infibulated.The day before our Mutilation was due to take place ,another girl was infibulated and she died. We fought back but our parents told us it was an obligation,I really thoought I was going to die from the pain.Afterwards they tied ropes across our legs, so it was like we had to learn to walk again. we had to try to go to the rest room, because if you couldn't pass water for the next ten days something went wrong,"explains Fatima

Talking about Female Genital Mutilation

There’s nothing wrong with sharing your story, with being vulnerable and weak. Sometimes that’s what makes us strong. People who have courage are the ones who can share their deepest secrets.

I used to write poems in high school and college, but I would always write in the third person, like it was about my cousins and other people I knew, and their experiences with female genital mutilation. But I never talked about me.

Most of my friends were completely shocked to find out I was mutilated. And some of them felt very betrayed that I didn’t tell them, but on the show, everything came out; the tears came out and the emotional journey began.

I was unraveling things I had never talked about before, and doing it on national television. I felt so vulnerable and I still feel vulnerable. But I glad I did it finally and I’m so proud of myself.

I’m not here to judge or criticize our culture and say these people are bad for practicing female circumcision. I think culture is very important – I’m just trying to find a way to talk about it. I want young girls to be able to express themselves because I feel like there’s a whole part of them that’s dead, and that they just don’t talk about.

I hope I didn’t offend anybody in the process of being on the show. I don’t regret anything I said or did, but I do have that problem of being less tactful at times. Maybe I was sometimes misunderstood, but I really want to thank all my fans.

An Estimated 189,00 women and girls in the united states had undergone FGM in 200. of these 48,00 were girls younger than 18:(((

Fatima’s Story


My name is Fatima* and I am from Guinea. I always dreamed of the life I could have had, if only my father did not die when I was a baby. My mother loved my father so much and was devastated when he died in a car accident. But she was not a widow for long. In line with our tribal customs, she was forced to marry my father’s brother, a greedy and abusive man. As my new stepfather, he physically abused us regularly. He beat my mother openly, punching her in the face in front of all of her young, scared children. My siblings and I were not spared from his unrestrained violence either. He often made me lie down on the floor and then would start beating me with his belt. He made our lives miserable.

All the more because of this terrible experience, I hoped to marry a man that I loved, just as my mother had when she married my father. But these hopes were dashed when, as a teenager, my stepfather forced me to marry a friend of his named Cheikh.* I was only 17, and this man was 42. I had not even completed high school. I was devastated and cried throughout the entire marriage ceremony.

This very real nightmare only got worse after my marriage to Cheikh. He was violent and beat me several times a week—using his fists, belts, and even small tree branches. I still have scars on my body and I cannot walk without pain to this very day. He raped me constantly, starting on my wedding night, when he held my face down and forced himself onto me.

Cheikh believed that it was shameful that I was not “circumcised.” In our tribe, almost all of the women undergo female genital mutilation. However, because my father was against the practice, and out of respect for his wishes, no one had forced me to go through it. When Cheikh asked me to undergo the procedure after marriage, I refused. Little did I know that he was planning to force it on me.

In 2004, Cheikh drove me to his village for a “vacation,” during which I stayed with his family members. A few days into our visit, his family told me that we were going to visit some family friends in the village. When I entered the door of the “family friends,” I was horrified to see several naked girls on the floor who were being cut. When I realized that this was a trap, I cried out and struggled to leave the house, but it was too late. My clothes were torn off, and three women pinned me to the ground while two others used a dirty knife to mutilate me. The pain was excruciating, and I struggled and screamed throughout the procedure.

I couldn’t walk normally, and I experienced recurring bleeding for several weeks after the procedure. When I returned to Cheikh, it was even more painful than before when he resumed raping me. He also continued beating me with as much fervor as before.

After unsuccessfully trying to run away from Cheikh on two different occasions, I finally got my chance to flee when my aunt and mother made secret arrangements for me to leave Guinea. After I arrived in the United States in 2006, I learned about the Tahirih Justice Center. Tahirih partnered with the great attorneys that worked on my asylum case, Kyle Cohen and Sara Zogg, from the law firm of Howrey, LLP. Due to their hard work on my behalf, I was granted asylum by an immigration judge in 2007, just a couple of days before Thanksgiving. I still don’t know how to thank my attorneys and everyone at the Tahirih Justice Center for all of their support throughout this difficult process. They are all truly my heroes.

Terror on Journalist who reports on FGM

Kidnapped by women, stripped naked, and paraded through the streets. This was the plight of four women journalists on February 7 in the city of Kenema in the African country of Sierra Leone. The reason? To punish them for reporting on female genital mutilation (FGM).

4% of women and girls in Sierra Leone ages 15 – 49 have experienced FGM, which is done to control their sexual urges, make them ready for marriage, and to make them an acceptable female member of society. Women cannot even hold office in Sierra Leone unless they have been cut.

Last year the Sierra Leone government said it would ban FGM, but it has done nothing about it. Patricia Kabbah, the late wife of previous President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, sponsored (paid for) the circumcisions of 15,000 girls in order to get votes for her husband. A decade ago, the woman who later became the Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Women’s Affairs in Sierra Leone threatened to “sew up the mouths” of those who preach against FGM.

It is hard to imagine that women such as the journalists’ kidnappers, the ex-president’s wife, and a minster of women’s affairs would all advocate the barbaric practice of cutting off the clitoris (and sometimes also the labia) of girls. The practice is often done with a crude knife, razor blade, or even a piece of broken glass and can cause severe bleeding and infection, injure girls for life, make them incontinent, make them infertile, cause complications during pregnancy and childbirth, and can even cause death.

Rugiatu Turay Fights FGM - Credit: The Independent

Rugiatu Turay Fights FGM

One brave woman in Sierra Leone who is working to stop this practice is 26-year-old Rugiatu Turay. Ms. Turay is a victim of FGM herself. The Independent online reports this about what happened to Ms. Turay when she was 12 years old:

Ms Turay was mutilated at her aunt’s house where she was staying with her three sisters and her cousin. “We didn’t even know that we were going to be initiated,” she says. “They called me to get water and then outside they just grabbed me.”

She was blindfolded, stripped, and laid on the ground. Heavy women sat on her arms, her chest, her legs. Her mouth was stuffed with a rag. Her clitoris was cut off with a crude knife. Despite profuse bleeding she was forced to walk, was beaten and had hot pepper water poured into her eyes.

“My mother had always told me never to let anyone touch me there. I was scared and I tried to fight them off. Nobody talked to me but there was all this clapping, singing, shouting,” recalls Ms Turay. “When I tried to walk on the seventh day I could not walk. All they could say is ‘Today you have become a woman’.”

The Truth is Female genital mutilation include procedures that intentionally alter or injure to an extend of destroying FEMALE GENITAL ORGANS! Please help me fight FGM. STOP FGM

Ambassador Lucy .s .Mashua President of Mashua's voice for the voiceless International

Assisting refugees in the US and representation in advocasy
The Global Ambassador for fighting Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and standing up for Women’s Rights.
And the Chairperson of a worldwide campaign against FGM.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mashua-Against-FGM/225406701415




Thursday, October 22, 2009

BABY DEBORAH 4 YRD DIED 18TH/OCT/2009 CAUSE OF DEATH FGM COMPLICATION SHE BLED TO DEATH!

Here is the translation of baby DEBORA DANIEL..AGE 4YEARS OLD DIED 19/10/009 aT THE HANDS OF HER Father DANIEL SHAURI and the mutilator MAMAMANGIZA...
Baby Debora was born in 2005 to a happy couple Daniel Shauri and Catherine Shauri in Tanzania Babati District.....where there is a heavy presence of World Vision, CCF and Plan international....and alot of gold and Tanzanite stones.
Baby Deborah's mother became sick mentally unstable because of trauma growing in that village and having uncured infections she was finally kicked out and baby Deborah stayed with her father....Deborah health became poor because she missed her mother and no breast milk....eventually she grew and joined a local school..then Deborah's father was given a common advice to mutilate her daughter for her to be a strong woman...she will be a great investment in future for her husband!
in October 11 2009 10.00pm when no one could hear the plea and cry from baby Deborah A mutilator MAMA MANGIZA performed the Vagina GENOCIDE on poor ,helpless,hopeless baby DEBORAH with a crude blunt rusty knife....from that day she bled for 8 days her vagina started turning green and maggots coming from her....I cannot imagine the pain she went through..then after her death the father and neighbours started funeral arrangements secretly and one good samaritan a MR PATIZUMU JESEPH came in and stopped the arrangements until BABY DEBORAH was served justice...he callled the police on them but only the father was arrested because the mutilator run for cover they are still looking for her!
me and some of my girls who are my clients refugees living in Dallas,
courtsey of Mashua voice for the voiceless international
Vyett and Chantal

There are talks that he might be released because he said it was not his fault he just wanted to help his daughter!
as the Ambassador when I reach my goal to the world court to finally criminalize FGM and term it as a GENOCIDE, FGM law will be DEBORAH and MASHUA law....with your help we can keep baby DEBORAH memory alive...by petitioning for justice! help me end FGM! I ask myself how many more children bleed to death or lives with acute infections? for how long are we going to play along the WITCH HUNTING OF CLITORIS!? I believe one person can make a difference!
Ambassador Lucy .s .Mashua President of Mashua's voice for the voiceless International
Assisting refugees in the US and representation in advocasy
The Global Ambassador for fighting Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and standing up for Women’s Rights.
And the Chairperson of a worldwide campaign against FGM.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mashua-Against-FGM/225406701415

http://www.nifahamishe.com/NewsDetails.aspx?NewsID=3381714&&Cat=1

NIFAHAMISHE Tanzania news portal .: Habari za Tanzania :.
Source: www.nifahamishe.com
Mtoa Maoni: Lucy Mashua Thursday, October 22, 2009 11:55:37 huu ni unyama natumaini watuhumiwa wafungwe maisha! hii hali ya ukeketaji ni unyama wahali ya juu nanilazima ukome!
parting shot: There is no such a thing as a lesser person

Ambassador Lucy .s .Mashua President of Mashua's voice for the voiceless International
Assisting refugees in the US and representation in advocasy
The Global Ambassador for fighting Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and standing up for Women’s Rights.
And the Chairperson of a worldwide campaign against FGM.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mashua-Against-FGM/225406701415

4 years old Debora Daniel bleeds to death, because of FGM

for how long are we going to watch silently when girls ,babies are dying because of this inhuman act FGM? she bled for 8 days after a tradition mutilator(Mama MANGIZA) which really means darkness! and her father DANIEL SHAURI in Tanzania, may she rest in peace oooh this is so hard for me
http://www.nifahamishe.com/NewsDetails.aspx?NewsID=3381714&&Cat=1
Ambassador Lucy .s .Mashua President of Mashua's voice for the voiceless International
Assisting refugees in the US and representation in advocasy
The Global Ambassador for fighting Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and standing up for Women’s Rights.
And the Chairperson of a worldwide campaign against FGM.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mashua-Against-FGM/225406701415

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Follw Mashua against FGM on twitter,

would you mind to follow me on twitter? and tell your friends I need massive support..http://twitter.com/Mashua

Lucy Mashua the Global Ambassador for Fighting Female Genital Mutilation


Society & Culture (tags: FGM, one person, make a difference, compassionate people )
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Lucy Mashua comes from South Kenya, from a Maasai family. Today, the 30-years old woman lives in Dallas where, after a long Odysse, she found a new home. At age of nine, she became a victim of female genital mutilation, Now she lives to tell as a voice for the voiceless,
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Thursday, October 8, 2009

MUTILATORS AND FRIENDS OF MUTILATORS! Stop FGM!

It's pointlesss to negotiate with anyone not to mutilate your vagina or your daughters,sister,mother,friend even young girls you don't know and women around the globe...I don't see how you will beg for someone not to mutilate your clitoris or stitch up your vagina or your daughters even your worst enemy's!
Gone are the days that we hoped this would change after years of organisations getting funds to combat FGM fruitless because they are friends and sympathizers of mutilators ..oooh..we have to approach this matter in a polite way its the custom and culture so as they say..who are you kidding? tell it to the girl who has been mutilated! for heavenly sake this is a GENOCIDE OF VAGINAS! or WITCH HUNTING OF CLITORIS!
I refuse to beg or negotiate with a mutilator not to mutilate girls and women anymore! now we get to nitty and gritty we are after you .you either STOP or FACE JAIL! and for the organisations that are friends and supporters of mutilators you will perish with them!
We are not going to beg for our God given humanrights!!
The voice
Ambassador Lucy .s .Mashua President of Mashua's voice for the voiceless International
Assisting refugees in the US and representation in advocasy
The Global Ambassador for fighting Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and standing up for Women’s Rights.
And the Chairperson of a worldwide campaign against FGM.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mashua-Against-FGM/225406701415

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

"I want to be a voice for the voiceless," said the 26-year-old from the Maasai tribe. "I am proud of my country, but I don't agree with some of its practices."

She couldn't escape the entrenched tradition of female genital mutilation. When she was only 9, she endured the procedure. And three years later, she was forced to marry.

While some countries ban the disfiguring custom, the practice persists. Many still believe the procedure is necessary to ensure that women are virgins and to lessen their sexual desires. Often, however, it results in infection, HIV and even death.

According to Equality Now, an international women's rights organization, more than 130 million girls and women have been circumcised, and 2 million girls undergo the practice every year in countries mostly in the northeast and central parts of Africa.

"I realize the tribe wants to keep its culture, but there's so much suffering," Ms. Mashua said. "Even though we are educated, we are still abused."

Her friend Jennifer Chege of Arlington grew up in a different environment in Kenya.

"My history is different," she said about growing up in a middle-class neighborhood. "But I know the other side and how women have to accept the abuse. We need to change their way of thinking."

That's the challenge, said Dennis Gakunga, who met Ms. Mashua at an event sponsored by the Dallas chapter of the United NationsAssociation. He left Kenya to study at the University of Texas at Arlington. "The tribes don't want to lose their culture," he said. "So they fight hard to keep their traditions."

Ms. Mashua is fighting hard to stop certain traditions. One goal is to establish rescue camps for girls in her country.

"I would like to start an organization here to help with this," she said. She feels people do not realize how difficult life still is for many African girls. She said she hopes she can help end genital mutilation by raising awareness of the practice.

Many international organizations are helping.

These actions encourage Ms. Mashua. Yet she knows she has far to go.

piblished by the Dallas morning news in 2006 now miss Mashua is the president of Mashua voice for the voiceless

Ms. Mashua just launched a worldwide campaign and currently the Global ambassador of FGM she is also the chairlady of protect sponsored girls from FGM .

The Voice

STOP FGM

For many years FGM have been overlooked.....no one cared to voice out and condem this human rights violation that leave girls dead, sick in pain with either an open vagina or a stitched vagina all in attempt to satsify a man! what about the women who cares enough to support a woman's right to enjoy sex? I do ! Do you? I am now leading a worldwide campaign to STOP FGM,
regards
The Voice
Ambassador Lucy .s .Mashua President of Mashua's voice for the voiceless International
Assisting refugees in the US and representation in advocasy
The Global Ambassador for fighting Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and standing up for Women’s Rights.
And the Chairperson of a worldwide campaign against FGM.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mashua-Against-FGM/225406701415