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1st and 2nd CHANGE Agents Training in Paris and Amsterdam

Training in Amsterdam. Foto: © FSANTraining in Amsterdam. Foto: © FSANOn Saturday 10th and 17th of September 2016 Equipop and FSAN held their very first training to the future CHANGE Agents in Paris and Amsterdam. After a warm welcome and exchanging mutual greetings, Aurélie Desrumaux, CHANGE Plus project coordinator for Equipop in Paris, and Zahra Naleie, project coordinator for FSAN who is also leading the trainings in Amsterdam, started the session and let the Agents introduce themselves. The CHANGE Agents are men and women coming from different African countries belonging to different social and age groups. Following the “getting to know one another”, Zahra and Sohkna Fall Ba (community manager of Equipop who is leading the trainings in Paris) started presenting module 1 “Introduction to CHANGE Plus and FGM”. All the Agents were enthusiast of hearing about the project and showed sincere involvement and motivation to stop FGM. They also gave some examples of activities they would love to organize in order to reach their communities. Then they talked about their motivation to become a CHANGE Agent and challenges within this mission. After lunch the trainers introduced the topic of FGM and explained the origins of it, the different types and the risks that FGM brings to the women’s health. All the Agents were very interested and shared their experiences and opinions.

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Message of condolence

Fatoumata Diakite With great dismay and deep sadness we have to inform you that our project's patron Madame Fatoumata Siré Diakité passed away on October 14th, 2016.

Her passionate and tireless fight for the abandonment of FGM remains unforgotten and will still inspire our project work.

Our thoughts are with her family and friends.

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