Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guest Angela Peabody. Airs from September 27th on.
What is Female Genital Mutilation?
Female Genital Mutilation, more commonly known as Female Circumcision is the intentional removal of the external parts of the female genitalia for non-medical reasons. There are 4 different related types of procedures.
Angela Peabody is the Executive Director and Founder of Global Woman P.E.A.C.E. Foundation, a 501c3 organisation founded on the principles of eliminating violence and injustices against women 
and girls. The mission of the organisation is to empower women and girls through education to eradicate gender based violence with emphasis on female genital cutting (FGC). She is a graduate of the School of Journalism at Columbia University. After a celebrated career as a Television Broadcast Journalist in Liberia, and Special Press Secretary to the country’s first woman Minister of Agriculture, Angela immigrated to the United States, following the bloody and brutal coup d’etat in her native Liberia.
It is Angela’s wish that her latest book, When the Games Froze (Buy Here ) will garner interest and support from the American public in the campaign to end female genital cutting. She developed the passion as an advocate for women and girls against injustices and violence after her sister was killed by her husband and a friend of hers died in childbirth as a result of female genital cutting.
The first 
Liberian woman to ever pen and publish a full-length novel, Angela is now an accomplished and award-winning author. Her literary work includes the novels, Exiled – within the Bowels of American Society (published 2001) and When the Games Froze (published 2014). She is the former Chair of the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the National Writers Union and served on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Women Business Owners and on the Advisory Board of Tigerlily Foundation. Angela continues to spread her message about injustices against women, women’s empowerment and human rights violation through Global Woman P.E.A.C.E. Foundation.
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History & Mission Global Woman P.E.A.C.E. Foundation was founded on the principles of ending violence and injustices against women and girls. The mission of the organization is to empower women and girls through education to eradicate gender based violence. Founded in 2012, the organization, Global Woman merged with another organization called P.E.A.C.E. (People Everywhere All Created Equal); the name was officially changed to Global Woman P.E.A.C.E. Foundation. In the same year, the organization received its 501c3 tax exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service under the new name. Unique Strengths & Assets There are several organizations in the United States that advocate against various individual types of gender based violence. However Global Woman P.E.A.C.E. Foundation is unique in its advocacy against female genital mutilation. The organization raises awareness through events and the distribution of literature about the violent acts against women and girls. The Executive Director, Angela Peabody authored a novel about female genital mutilation, from which all proceeds and royalties are donated to the organization as support against the practice of female genital mutilation. Programs Global Woman P.E.A.C.E. Foundation engages in four categories of programs:
1. Rehabilitation: A Group and Individual Counseling program in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area for survivors of female genital mutilation (FGM). This program provides an environment where women and girls can receive counselling and empowerment for a future free of FGM.
2. Prevention: A program for at-risk girls and children that are not at risk of experiencing FGM but might be the friend of an at-risk girl. This program entails working with parents, teachers, school nurses and school counselors as well as the children. To date, a training manual and a reading story book have been completed and ready to be shared with the public by Global Woman P.E.A.C.E. Foundation. In addition, a cultural history book is currently being written with child-friendly language.
3. A post FGM vagina does not look as it did prior to undergoing FGM. Its appearance is unfamiliar to American healthcare workers, and they are not accustomed to identifying and working with it. Restorative surgery is the answer to maNy post-FGM OB/GYN problems. The surgery will restore the vagina to normal appearance and functions. The surgery will help the young women have normal OB/GYN check-ups without embarrassment and fear. It enables them to have normal childbirth without the risk of infant and maternal mortalities, and to live without the physical genital pain they encounter with every monthly cycle and with each urination and sexual encounter. The centre is raising funds to support the surgeries of the young women.
The components of the Post Buddy Program are:
- One-on-one Counseling
- Group Counseling
- A Network of Participating OB/GYNo
- Physical Therapy
- OB/GYN and Restorative Surgery Referrals
Email: angelap@globalwomanpeacefoundation.org
Web: www.globalwomanpeacefoundation.org
facebook.com/globalwomanpeacefoundation
twitter.com/@1GlobalWoman
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Prologue to The Taste of Freedom, A Poetic Prosaic Photographic Journey © by Kim Karrington Cartwright Having had many mystical experiences since I was a child I was able to experience in this one life, seeming lifetimes of experiences, which all related in one way or another to learning to save and value me as much as I saved and valued others. I have encountered and been exposed to a plethora of human emotions, trauma, heartache, injury, and loss. So that is why I brought forth the books, to help people live in this world and face the challenges from a standpoint of Practical Spirituality which is based in authenticity, compassion, integrity, intuition, catharsis, release and understanding. It is a realistic, feasible, and doable process to address day to day issues from a soul-filled and spiritual standpoint while still living the human experience with all its majesty, sensations, and challenges. It is bridging and balancing the seen and the unseen, the local (microcosm) and non-local (macrocosm), time and space and timeless and space-less, the mundane and the divine and making peace with the paradox of existence and ostensible duality. This Book Trilogy is all about helping people find and live in a state of freedom, contentment, and value and treating the individual with respect and dignity throughout the journey, honoring his or her emotions and processes in a kind, deep, expansive, insightful and supportive way. Sometimes people make other people feel bad, telling them that if they were only more “grateful for” and “positive about” what they were going through, it wouldn’t be happening. Or they should “Just Forgive, Forget” even while in the midst and fury of the trauma as they are “holding on to being mistreated” and “responsible for keeping it going”. This sometimes initiates resistance in the person being told this as the words can be used or implied in a way that makes them feel more separated versus whole and utterly unsupported. They start hiding and burying their feelings and emotions to seem more “spiritual” and fit in. Conflict ensues as they are not being true to themselves and mini volcanoes start to erupt within which eventually pour out as energy into their lives. That energy brings in events, people, and circumstances on the outside, in their daily life, that then forces them to address the emotions, feelings, and issues that they were trying to deny and suppress to be accepted by others. In reality, the process of forgiving helps free the injured person more than the individual who needs forgiving. The “victim” no longer has to emotionally carry the full weight of the deeds or crimes because of the unprocessed grief and unresolved injustice of the experience. Forgiveness is a process of letting go to be free, and it blesses both sides when that energy is released. The blessing of gratitude, acknowledging all that there is to be thankful for, is something wonderful and life-affirming but it needs to come more from within than without. You cannot pressure someone to be “more grateful.” I have found that if people are approached more from a standpoint of bringing them back to LOVE, self-worth, self-love, and their inherent value as connected to a divine source, a beneficent universe, there is less resistance and more flow and healing. Their energy can shift because their minds are not creating a defense mechanism making them feel like they are “less” and “unworthy” because they were feeling sad or angry about a circumstance that was taking place in their life that was often happening through no apparent fault of their own. Their feelings were valid. Through processing their emotions in a safe and meaningful way, people are able to understand where and why the feelings are coming up and honor the process and release them. In this way, they can open their hearts and minds to dwelling more on positive thoughts and affirmations. And gratitude for the abundant gifts that are all around them, in them, and through them becomes a natural process and blossoms and blooms more easily and visibly each day. I have found that in honoring my value, my heart, I am able to better evaluate and understand the core of another.
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