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Natalie Roberts

Communications lead of the Orchid Project.

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Let's talk about FGM

Every 12 minutes, a girl dies as a direct result of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). That’s 5 girls in an hour, 120 girls a day, 44,320 girls every year. These are not just numbers—they represent real lives, dreams and futures lost to a practice without a medical purpose.

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We cannot allow ourselves to accept as normal a situation in which advances in technology, digitalisation and artificial intelligence, which should improve the amount of time available to us for our personal lives, are instead creating a feeling of living under constant time pressure.

When a child understands why a rule exists, it is easier for them to make it their own and incorporate it as part of their way of relating to others.

Social entities are key spaces for detecting and preventing emotional distress in young people, especially in a context marked by the impact of social networks.