Some Soweis (FMG practitioners) in Sierra Leone are partnering with the CBO Sabi U Right in Grafton to fighting against this harmful traditional practice by sensitizing the other soweis. Their action for now is to ban any cutting of a girl below 18. Since 2 years now, no ceremony was performed in the community of Grafton. Next step is the total banishment of the practice.
Women and Orphan movement in Zanlerigu , Northern Ghana, succeeded to abolish the barbaric habit of stripping women naked in the street as part of the ritual of widowhood. This was as a result of sensitizing, theater performance and talks they are doing at community level and targeting women, men and traditional chiefs to drop this part of the widowhood. Next fight will be halt negative widowhood rituals that made the widow to marry the brother of her defunct husband and the subsequent neglect of the children of the diseased and the untold hardships it brought to the widow.
Two Naabas (traditional chiefs), selected by the Mogho Naaba (King of the mossi people in Burkina) are fighting against women banishment for witchcraft through awareness raising using theater, public talks with their peers traditional chiefs and community members in targeted villages. As the result of their action, one Naaba brought back to his community, a woman previously banned. Coranic teachers in
Senegal are taught about child rights in the madrassas and through a film screening on miserable situation of child beggars, the association SOS Talibés is sensitizing them to change the situation of children in their respective madrassas. Lots of talks is going on and recently, the government took the decision to forbid begging in the streets except around the religious buildings.
