FORWARD’s multi-award-winning Schools Programme offers a comprehensive and wide range of services for schools. All of our schools services are delivered in a sensitive and age appropriate way by experienced FORWARD facilitators. Our schools services are flexible and tailored to meet the needs of each school and target audience.
This short film explores the impact of female genital mutilation (FGM) on not just individual women but the men in their lives, and the difficulty in having the 'uncomfortable conversation' around an expectant mothers FGM and her fear for her unborn daughter.
Senegalese superstar, Youssou Ndour, speaks with Kékéli, FORWARD's Head of Diaspora, on the role of the African diaspora communities in supporting the efforts on the continent to counter violence against women and girls (VAWG)
Female Genital Mutilation Specialist Health Services around the UK
FORWARD's Musicians Unite to End FGM (MUTEFGM) project launches new song by Tanzania rapper RP Mbaula Ntiai Eembe Koko (Drop The Razor Blade, Old Lady)
Driving Social Change: Communicating Our Message Creatively
Ntiai Eembe Koko is sung in Maasai meaning “Drop the razor blade, old lady,” the song is being launched by FORWARD’s Musicians Unite to End FGM (MUTEFGM) project.
Unique and particularly concerning, is the migration of women and girls aged between 1O and 35 years to become Kayayei, or head porters - young women and girls who earn money by carrying loads on their heads in lorry parks and markets.
Reasons for internal migration vary, but economic incentives are key. The majority of migration is in order to find work. Other motives include education and marriage, although women are generally more likely than men to migrate for marriage.
To mark International Women's Day on 8th March 2018, FORWARD's Musicians Unite to End FGM (MUTEFGM) project in collaboration with Black History Studies presented The Power of Music: Artists Using Conversation and Music for Social Change at Hackney Attic, London.
Participatory Study on Teenage Pregnancy and Child Motherhood in Mpwapwa District, Tanzania
Participatory Study on Teenage Pregnancy and Child Motherhood in Mpwapwa District, Tanzania
