Britain’s big battle against Female Genital Mutilation

Manor Gardens’ team of FGM community workers.

Londoner Hibo Wardere, a mother of seven, still vividly remembers the day when, as a six-year-old back home in East Africa, she was marched by close relatives led by her mother for ‘the cut’.

She nearly died that day. The pain was so agonising, Hibo recalls, that she simply prayed that she should die.