Welcome
The Orchid Project has a simple vision: a world free from female genital cutting.*
This is possible within the next generation. We want to work with local, national and international organisations, who together can end FGC.
We want to raise awareness, gain support and ensure there are more resources to allow us to end FGC by 2025.
FGC is a recognised abuse of human rights, child rights and women’s rights. It is recognised globally as such, yet still, 3 million girls a year are cut in Africa alone.
This campaign aims to break the silence and taboo around FGC, to point to the gaps and lack of information and data and to push for FGC to take the position it deserves, high on the priority list.
* There are many debates about which terminology to use. “Cutting” seems less of a judgemental phrase to us than “mutilation” bearing in mind the communities we wish to work with. For the Orchid Project, the important thing is not to get diverted too much into a debate about language, but keep working to end it! Sometimes we will use the terminology interchangeably as FGM/C (as UNICEF, for example does).
