Women’s organisations in Sudan are using creative ways to oppose FGM. NGOs have started to include henna artists in their anti-FGM awareness campaigns. As women are in regular contact with these artists, they can refer mothers-to-be to a midwife who does not perform FGM. Special designs of the traditional henna paintings that women wear on their hands and feet indicate the midwife that the mother does not want her daughter to be genitally mutilated, even if she is afraid to communicate this wish openly.

Many mothers are afraid to admit opposing FGM, as doing so is still widely considered as condoning promiscuity and infidelity.

Source: The Huffington Post