| Title : | Saving Safa | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Waris Dirie, Author ; Walter Lutschinger, Author | | Publisher: | London : Virago | | Publication Date: | 2015 | | Pagination: | 276 p. | | Size: | 23 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-349-00596-6 | | Class number: | 392.1096 | | Abstract: | Saving Safa opens with a letter from Safa, now aged seven, who explains that she is worried that she will undergo FGM in spite of the contract her parents have signed with Dirie's Desert Flower Foundation stating that they will never have their daughter cut. Waris drops everything and flies to Djibouti where she meets Safa's father and mother who thinks her daughter should be cut to stop the community ostracising them. Waris brings them to Paris and to Vienna, they learn about the foundation and Safa's father finally comes round to the idea of working for the foundation as well.
As Safa was saved from FGM through a contract with her parents,the Foundation believes a thousand other girls can be saved through providing their families with aid in return for a promise not to mutilate their daughter | | Contents note: | From the bestselling author of Desert Flower: the true story of saving a young girl from FGM. |
Saving Safa [printed text] / Waris Dirie, Author ; Walter Lutschinger, Author . - London : Virago, 2015 . - 276 p. ; 23 cm. ISBN : 978-0-349-00596-6 | Class number: | 392.1096 | | Abstract: | Saving Safa opens with a letter from Safa, now aged seven, who explains that she is worried that she will undergo FGM in spite of the contract her parents have signed with Dirie's Desert Flower Foundation stating that they will never have their daughter cut. Waris drops everything and flies to Djibouti where she meets Safa's father and mother who thinks her daughter should be cut to stop the community ostracising them. Waris brings them to Paris and to Vienna, they learn about the foundation and Safa's father finally comes round to the idea of working for the foundation as well.
As Safa was saved from FGM through a contract with her parents,the Foundation believes a thousand other girls can be saved through providing their families with aid in return for a promise not to mutilate their daughter | | Contents note: | From the bestselling author of Desert Flower: the true story of saving a young girl from FGM. |
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