Jennifer,
         We will notify you of our plans to visit Gambia and what will be
done to help stop FGM.
Thank you for being there for us.

>From: JENNIFER EIDSON <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Female Circumcision - What Should Be The Approach To
>    Facilitating Positive Change
>Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 14:38:24 -0500
>
>I will be traveling to the Gambia in December.  If there is anything
>that I can do to help with the process of educating, I am there. I will
>be staying thru January.  In which I will have plenty of time to pass
>out pamphlets, and talk with individuals and groups, etc.  I may be a
>little blunt to some, at times but I am just trying to get the ball
>rolling, (for a lack of better words) and get help for these innocent
>girls.  That is all, I might be white but I do have Gambian in my heart.
>As I have said before I fell in love with the Gambia and it's people,
>the first time I went there.  My heart got broken in 1998 when I
>witnessed the horrible act that was preformed on an innocent girl.  I'm
>just one person and since then I have returned to the Gambia two other
>times and I have stopped this from happening to my Gambian niece and a
>baby that I delivered.  So please let me help!  I am here for the
>asking.  As I said I will be going again in December and what not to
>better spend my time then to do something that I believe is right and
>that being, educating people on the risk of FGM!   Thanks so much for
>all the kind and not so kind replies to my emails.  It's good to know
>that people will stand up for what they believe no matter how many don't
>like the topic and how ever graphic it may be!  I saw this Quote at the
>end of another email and it has a very strong
>message, therefore I am including it at the end of mine.
>
>"NOTHING IS UNACHIEVABLE, THE ONLY QUESTION IS, WHETHER ONE IS WILLING
>TO DO WHAT IT TAKES TO ACHIEVE WHAT IS DESIRED"
>
>THIS IS A VERY POWERFUL QUOTE!
>
>Love,
>Jennifer Eidson
>
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