Since 1991, the Live With Hope Foundation, located in the remote mountains of Eastern Uganda, has provided care and support to many women.

Committed to putting an end to stigma and discrimination from the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), funds will support information dissemination to traditional cutters and elders to help stop this act. The United Nations categorizes FGM as a human rights violation because it damages a woman’s sexuality and leads to various complications. It refers to the removal of a woman’s sexual genitalia.

Women cutters will be provided with start-up funds to initiate their own projects and sustain their families and livelihoods. In addition, through family dialogue, training, and support supervision, this project will support girls affected by FGM who will be allowed to milk cows, climb the granary, and clear cow dung from the kraal like other community members.