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July to December 2016
• Official registration of AWAFC Inc. as a 501C3
non-profit organization in the US
• AWAFC Global Mission: To advocate for inter and
intra gender equality of circumcised women and
adolescent girls worldwide. To promote basic literacy
training and improved clinical skills of rural practitioners.
• “Aint’ I a Woman” Campaign receives $50,000 from
our Asian community and grassroots partners for
operational costs in 2016. Another $50,000 pledged for 2017.
SLWA-FC
Sierra Leonean Women Are Free to Choose
SiA Inc. sponsors press conference on September
21, 2016 in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to launch
SiA Magazine’s special issue on Female Genital
Cosmetic Surgeries (FGCS) as well as the formation
of Sierra Leone Women Are Free to Choose.
SLWAFC hires local staff and legal representation
SLWAFC Supported official Sierra Leone Government
stance on over 18 Bondo initiation.
October 2016, SLWAFC
issues press release de-
nouncing duplicitous an-
ti-FGM campaigns and
fabricated FGM stories
in Freetown.
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SLWAFC is registered as a Community Based
Organization based in Freetown
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Special issue of SiA Magazine finalized,
to be released on February 6, 2017
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The Sande Society of the Mende people of Sierra Leone is a secret female regulatory society that both guards and
transmits the ideals of feminine beauty so fundamental to the aesthetic criteria in Mende culture. In this eloquent
and moving book, Sylvia Ardyn Boone describes the Society, its rituals and organization, and the mask worn by its
members. Her book is an evocative account of Mende life and philosophy as well as a unique contribution to the
study of African art, one based on African conceptions about the person and the human body.
yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300048612
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