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Latest from Tostan

📰 Update · 1w

Ending Child Marriage and Cutting : The Generation Born After

📰 Update · 4w

New study backs Tostan civic model

📰 Update · Sep 21

A Border That No Law Can Fully Protect

📰 Update · Sep 3

Pape Samba Niang: Behind the Scenes of Community Impact

📰 Update · Sep 3

Saliou Fall, From Farm Fields to a Career in Logistics

📰 Update · Sep 3

Birima Fall, Leadership Forged in Somalia

📰 Update · Aug 13

Why 72 Million Young Africans Are Still Waiting for an Entry Point ?

📰 Update · Aug 7

Abandoning Female Genital Cutting: ‘It wasn’t the fear of prison that changed things’

Tostan — Community-Led Change Across West Africa

Communities

🇸🇳 Senegal

Empowers rural West African communities through education programs that have led thousands of villages to abandon harmful practices.

3,792communitiesSenegalese communities publicly declaring abandonment of FGC
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