Fátima Djarra Sani is a Guinea-Bissau feminist activist, particularly against female genital mutilation (FGM).
Fátima Djarra Sani was born in Bisáu in 1968.[1] She is an activist against the genital mutilation of women in Guinea-Bissau and represents Médicos del Mundo before the African community.
Her family belongs to the Mandinga ethnic group and she suffered genital mutilation when she was 4 years old.
She left her country after the death of her husband. He graduated in Cuba as a superior technician in Civil Construction and completed his training in Brussels at the Routiers Transport and Logistics Institute and arrived in Bilbao where his sister lived. There he took courses in auxiliary geriatrics and intercultural mediation. On April 1, 2008, he joined Médicos del Mundo Navarra. He organized workshops and lectures on the visibility of African women. Since 2008, she has been working on a project on sexual reproductive health and prevention of genital mutilation. He participated in the drafting of a protocol for the prevention and action against female genital mutilation that was approved in June 2013 in Navarra. It is a superior technique in Civil Construction and superior technique in Social Integration.
In 2015 she published Indomable: From mutilation to life, from the Península Realidad publishing house, in which he tells his story and what it has meant for his life. Denounces that the lack of information and education covers these behaviors, so Fatima has decided to dedicate her life to these tasks so that they can not serve as an excuse in the future.
Publications
- Indomable: From mutilation to life 2015