TMS English teacher Jonah Weaver and partner Ashley Walton spent their summer in Sierra Leone volunteering for an organization called Compassion First. Jonah and Ashley were working to promote education and help reduce the local prevalence of female genital mutilation, a painful rite of initiation into the Bondo Society, which counts up to 90% of Sierra Leonean women as members. In their joint blog, Ashley writes: Life is by no means easy in Sierra Leone. If you are a woman, life is downright hard. Every stage of a woman’s life is met with adversity, constraint and conventional expectations of how she should live her life. Sierra Leone is not the best place for a woman to dream. For most women, the future is already known.
You can view their complete blog at: http://compassionfirstsierraleone.wordpress.com/.
You can also still make a donation to the on-going effort at: https://secure.compassionfirst.org/eDonation/index.asp?Donation_form_id=30&isAdmin=1
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