Shadows of the Past: Breaking Free from FGM

On a quiet morning, weighed down by an inexplicable tension, twelve-year-old Hayat faced an experience that would change her life forever. It was 2006, and she sat quietly, wide-eyed and unsettled, watching her surroundings without understanding what was coming. When her eyes fell on the medical instruments — the scissors and razors — her young heart started to tremble. Overwhelmed by fear, she quickly spiraled into panic as the nurse and her assistant forcefully restrained her, exposing the lower part of her body…