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Subject: Molly Melching Talk
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:23:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Human Rights Education HRERN Research Network
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"A PEACEFUL REVOLUTION:
ENDING FEMALE GENITAL CUTTING IN AFRICA"
Tuesday, November 28, 2000
2:00 PM
HUB 209A
Molly Melching
Founder of Senegalese Human Rights Organization, Tostan
As a student at the University of Illinois, Molly Melching arrived in
Senegal in 1974, enrolling as an exchange student at the University of
Dakar. Ms. Melching described the experience in a published interview
as
love at first sight. After finishing her Masters Degree Ms. Melching
remained in Senegal as a Peace Corps volunteer and then created a
childrens center through the Senegalese Ministry of Culture. She has
remained in Senegal ever since. An energetic and charismatic leader,
Ms. Melching created Tostan in 1991. Tostan is a non-governmental
organization that developed and implements an innovative non-formal
education program in national languages for women and adolescents in
hundreds of villages throughout Senegal and now in Mali, Burkina Faso
and
the Sudan.
Although founded by Melching, Tostan is in reality a grassroots
organization. It provides women and adolescents with skills and
concepts
of practical use, but leaves application of the lessons up to the
participants. For example, it was village women educated by Tostan who
decided to combine their lessons in human rights with information they
had
learned about health and hygiene to start a grassroots movement against
female circumcision. This movement, started by women in one village,
soon
swept to many villages across Senegal. Many articles and films have
been
produced on this historic experience, including a CNN special for People
Count. Tostan was a finalist for the Conrad N. Hilton Prize and was
chosen by UNESCO in 1995 as one of the most innovative non-formal
education programs in the world. Ms. Melching won the 1999 University
of
Illinois Alumni Humanitarian Award.
Sponsored by UW Human Rights Education & Research Network, Human
Services
Policy Center, International Health Program, Population Leadership
Program
and Program on Africa
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