Ayaan Women Development Association (AWODA) is a non-governmental, non-political and nonprofit making organization dedicated to development issues in under-served and/or marginalized Somaliland communities. AWODA organization is among 45 members of NAGAAD women umbrella and NAFIS (Network against FGM in Somaliland), also AWODA is the founder of this FGM network.
It was founded in 1996 by a group of women right activists in Somaliland with the aim to promote the marginalized and feeble lives of women, children and youths in the close and hard to reach remote areas of Somaliland regions,
who are the articulated theme of the organization in order to make them use of expressing their feelings and standing for their rights in assertiveness manner, as well as to enhance their livelihood and alleviate their sufferings, by initiating ideas and working with a conditioned manner and creating of a favorable condition to promote their interests through integrated and harmonized approaches based on the initial mandated sectors of interventions that addresses issues through awareness-raising and information initiatives to end FGM to modify behavior of youth groups, traditional and religious leaders, authorities, teaching and health care staff.
AWODA is among the civil society organizations based in Somaliland that need to work together to end FGM – The Girl Generation; Governments; Mass-media; Humanitarian actors; & communities. There is evidence that attitudes to FGM are changing and many affected by FGM want the practice to end. With support and resources we can build on this and help bring about change in more and more communities until eventually FGM is eradicated Out of Somali community!!
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