Group Engages Ebonyi Journalists On Campaign Against FGM

Group, Center for Social Value and Early Childhood Development (CESVED) Friday engaged journalists in Ebonyi State on the campaign against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the State.

The group said media should use their report to disabuse the peoples mind on FGM practice.


In the two day training organized in Abakaliki with support from Amplify Change, tagged, ” Voice Out To Save The Girl Child”, CESVED noted that it is important for the media being the bedrock of information to select choice of words in reporting FGM to avoid causing crisis among the people.

According to the president of CESVED, Gift Augustine Abu, journalist can not visit a Traditional ruler and tell him that his culture is barbaric that such would sound as an insult to the traditional ruler being a custodian of culture therefore persuasive words should be used to pass the information on the health challenges of Female genital Mutilation on the survivors.

She said CESVED plans to train medical practitioners, establish EndFGM club in schools , engage town criers and also organize EndFGM football Competitions for youths in Ebonyi state .

All these would make the people to gain full knowledge about the harmful effect of FGM and stop the practice.

“There is serious need why we are working towards ending FGM and also using the Media.

“We are also ensuring that this Campaign also reach the schools, the town criers in the local levels. We are also ensuring we use football competition to also campaign and having a smaller community council units to see if this people can reach to them to campaign within Southeast and South South.


“I’m very shock to notice that Ebonyi state Is declining, the are climbing lower in the prevalence rate, that means, her Excellency the wife of the governor, media and the stakeholders are working tirelessly towards it.

“In the schools, we form EndFGM clubs, but this projects is coming to solidify it more because this time around we are not only looking at the primary schools, we are looking at both the Secondary schools and also looking at bringing the people from the communities to participate in the football competitions.


We want the Media to use their platform to carry out this Campaign using the right words to get to the people in order to achieve the 2030 proposal of ending FGM in country.

Mr. Chika Igwe of Ebonyi Broadcasting Corporation in a presentation explained that FGM has caused more harm to the female forks, hence the need for all stakeholders especially the media to add more efforts to ensure that the practice becomes a thing of the past.

The event featured presentation of awarded of honor to the wife of Ebonyi State Governor, who has been in the forefront of ending FGM.#
Journalists at the workshop

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