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NOTTINGHAM’S 1 ST FGM ZERO
TOLERANCE ANNIVERSARY
Mojatu Foundation has led the celebration of the
first anniversary since Nottingham City became
the first City of Zero-tolerance to Female Genital
Mutilation (FGM) in the UK. The event held on
Tuesday 6 February at Farmeco Community Care
Farm, Screveton was marked with a tree planting
ceremony that brought over 40 strategic partners
from as far as Wales and Scotland.
The celebration also marked the International Day of
Zero Tolerance for FGM, celebrated on 6th February
every year. Attendees included political, community
and faith leaders, charities, policy makers, funders,
local authorities and other organisations tackling FGM,
individuals and well-wishers. The ceremony included
adoption of trees and installation of plaques, with
personalised messages, as a gesture of supporting
the end FGM campaign. Messages on tree plaques to
support the campaign included memory of a loved
one, a family, on behalf of an organisation, group,
church, mosque etc.
Not even the bad weather nor the muddy fields stopped
the attendees from getting their hands cold and dirty
in the symbolic ceremony that saw all of them put the
roots of over 40 fruit trees into the earth linking social
justice to the environment. Thousands of people and
future generations will enjoy the fruits of their labour
and their messages will remain as a legacy of their
contribution to social justice and the fight for gender
equality! Many of those who planted trees vowed to
bring their family members, colleagues or friends to
visit their tree in solidarity to the End FGM Movement
thus engaging more people in the campaign.
Through the Mojatu Foundation’s “End FGM in a
Generation” campaign in UK and beyond, Nottingham
City took a strong stance and declared Nottingham
a “Zero-tolerance to FGM City,” the first city in the UK
to do so. Survivors and Nottingham FGM Community
Steering Group, run by Mojatu, spearheaded this
declaration through working with local councillors
and other partners. This remarkable achievement for