Fahma Mohamed (correct) with Gill Kelly, head of the City Academy secondary college in Bristol. Photograph: Adrian Sherratt for the Guardian
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The Bristol student Fahma Mohamed is due to meet Michael Gove to press him to seek out an end to female genital mutilation in the United kingdom by urging each college to train teachers and mother and father about the horrors of the practice.
The schooling secretary will on Tuesday communicate to Mohamed and members of the youth charity Integrate Bristol, which campaigns for far more education about FGM in schools.
The meeting comes soon after practically 250,000 men and women signed a Guardian-backed petition on the campaigning website Change.org calling on Gove to get action.
The campaign has gathered momentum because its launch, at the beginning of the month, turning into 1 of the largest campaigns hosted on the website and winning the assistance of the Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai and the basic secretary of the UN, Ban Ki-moon.
As a outcome of the campaign the Scottish government has previously agreed to send a letter to every teacher in Scotland asking them to be proactive about teaching the hazards and warning signs of FGM.
Writing today in the Guardian, Mohamed stated Gove had the opportunity to make a actual difference, She would request him to publish to all schools ahead of the summer time holidays providing guidance to teachers about how to tackle FGM, asking headteachers to train employees about warning indications and chance, and calling on them to educate kids about the dangers of FGM.
“It is time for some real progress from Michael Gove,” she stated. “Teachers are wise people they can educate this tough situation sensitively and delicately. I need to know: I have witnessed it take place. The faster the message gets to colleges, the quicker the cycle will be broken.
“In secondary schools teachers will talk to tomorrow’s mothers, breaking the cycle that way in principal schools teachers would have the self confidence to take on this issue on the frontline.”
Mohamed mentioned she hoped the education secretary would not ignore the wishes of every person who had signed the campaign petition. “Gove should compose to them because of the hundreds of thousands who have backed our campaign and know it truly is the appropriate issue to do, who agree that this horrific abuse need to be stopped,” she said.
“It is important that colleges in all places get the message, [that] teachers move and so do men and women. The FGM emergency requirements to be tackled head on, and tackled now.
“For people who have survived FGM, it will imply so a lot. It will imply that he has understood, he has heard, and he understands that it is, simply, kid abuse. I hope he’ll want to be remembered as the man or woman who broke the cycle of abuse, and stopped it.”
FGM campaigner Fahma Mohamed urges Gove to help finish cycle of abuse
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