PART 8.2

PART 8.2

In Senegal, young girls usually had to go through a painful process deeply embedded in the culture of their society that served no purpose, and had been going on generation after generation. Girls and women were advocating for an end to this practice of female genital cutting. But their pleas were not enough to convince men throughout the country to stop this traditional cultural practice.

FEATURING

Melinda French Gates, Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation