The mutilation of female genitalia is a millennium old, practiced mostly in African custom. The World Health Organization estimates that suffer each year two million girls in the name of tradition, the sad fate of their circumcision. For eight years, uses the club (I) NTACT against the genital mutilation of girls and women in Africa. The Korff Foundation the first to support the work of the sponsoring organization. The latest focal country for the small West African country Togo. CARD and Odjougbo for example, have members in many villages, which are organized in groups of women. In these groups, they now carry the information about the negative health consequences and the fundamental concerns raised by circumcision into it. Odia however, maintains good contacts with voodoo convents, where they hope to influence the local priests and priests who are deeply involved in the decision on the introduction of circumcision, according to can. 

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