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August 7, 2025

NGO Decries Prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation in Imo State, Inaugurates FGM Survivors Network.

Virgin Heart Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) based in Imo State, has expressed deep concern over the alarming prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the state. The Foundation is calling on the Imo State Government and the Ministry of Justice to ensure the full enforcement of the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Law particularly Section 9—and the state’s domesticated…

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May 27, 2025

CHILDREN’S DAY 2025

VIRGIN HEART FOUNDATION CALLS FOR MORE PROTECTIVE MEASURES FOR IMO CHILDREN. As Imo State marks Children’s Day 2025, we are once again reminded of the immense value, dreams, and potential our children carry. It is a day meant to celebrate the joy of childhood, the right to safety, education, and health, and to reaffirm our collective responsibility to nurture the…

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March 8, 2025

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2025

#Accelerate Action. Today is International Women’s Day under the campaign theme “Accelerate Action.” This campaign theme emphasizes the urgent need to take decisive steps toward achieving gender equality, addressing the slow pace of progress, and empowering women and girls worldwide. The 2025 theme, Accelerate Action calls for rapid advancements in gender equality. It focuses on recognizing strategies and tools that…

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December 8, 2024

VHF Established an FGM Survivors Network, conduct medical outreach and empower them with skills to drive change in the 20 communities.

VHF trained and sensitized sixty Network of Female Genital Mutilation Survivors in Imo State. They were identified due to their experiences and stories. These women were trained on advocacy and communication skills to enable them create various Networks of Survivors in their respective communities and hold reflective Dialogues on ENDFGM .

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December 8, 2024

2-day Orientation and engagement with traditional birth attendants, patent medicine dealers and community health workers on elimination of medicalization of FGM

Virgin Heart Foundation empowered through training the Traditional Birth Attendants TBAs, Health Workers and Patent Medical Dealers from 20 Communities towards ending Female Genital Mutilation in Imo State. The TBAs and Health workers was identified through a research carried out by UNICEF and WHO as perpetrators of FGM. Medicalisation of Female Genital Mutilation is a practice of FGM by Health…

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December 8, 2024

Advocacy to 20 intervention communities & stakeholders for support & mapping exercise

For success of any programme, there is need for baseline assessment to understudy the background, history and problem you wish to solve. VHF did a baseline assessment in these communities to understand that FGM type 4 were more prevalent and deep rooted in culture and traditional sentiments.  About ten thousand (10,000) Adolescent girls, ages 9years to 19 years are at…

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December 8, 2024

1-day advocacy meeting with 80 influential leaders from the 20 intervention communities in Imo State.

VHF through the support of UNICEF/UNFPA Joint Programme held Advocacy Meeting with Relevant Stakeholders in Imo State on ENDFGM Programme . The most significant success was the decision the stakeholder took on behalf of the 20 communities in Imo State to end FGM by publicly denouncing the Practice. Female Genital Mutilation is a practice of partial or total removal of…

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