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Current Feed ContentBakary Tamaba Returns after Championing Women’s Rights at a Conference in ItalyThe National Coordinator for Tostan in The Gambia, Mr. Bakary Tamba, has recently returned from Italy. He was there for a ten-day Sensitization program concerning Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). In an exclusive interview with The Point at Tostan’s headquarters in Kololi, Mr. Tamba said he started working with Tostan in Cassamance. There he worked with a regional coordinator where they issued declarations in December 2003 on FGM to 118 villages after which he said the villages accepted to...Tostan Armed to Empower the Powerless – Says Deputy DirectorTostan is a non-governmental organisation that was initiated in Senegal. It aims to empower the powerless including women in the provinces. This is according to the Deputy Director of the organisation Mr. Ansu Kambaye. He added, “The word Tostan is derived from a wollof word referring to when a hen lays eggs and they hatch the small chickens will spread. This is why we use the word because we also spread an share our knowledge with people.” Mr. Kanbaye added that their aim is to spread... |
