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United Dioceses of Dublin & Glendalough

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29th November

Mothers’ Union Service for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence

Mothers’ Union Service for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence

Mothers’ Union in Dublin & Glendalough will hold a Service of the Word for 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence on Sunday November 29 on YouTube.

The service will come from St Brigid’s Church of Ireland, Castleknock, Dublin 15 and will be available on the CMC Parish YouTube channel from 10am.

The speaker at the service will be Ms Ifrah Ahmed, who will talk about Female Genital Mutilation. Ifrah is an Irish citizen, Gender Advisor to the Prime Minister of Somalia and has set up the Ifrah Foundation whose aim is to eradicate FGM in Somalia and influence other governments in Africa to do the same. According to AkiDwa there is estimated to be 5,790 cases of women who have had FGM living in Ireland.

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