Project 02/2019 Awareness training, education mediation and medical treatment of Kenyan women affected by FGM

Second contribution handed over to Desert Flower Centre Hospital Waldfriede/Berlin-Germany - Darmstadt/Germany August 12th 2019

Yet in 2016 the Dieter & Bettina Wulkow Foundation has consigned a contribution to the Desert Flower Centre/Waldfriede, Berlin. The Hospital Waldfriede, Berlin- an educational hospital of the famous Charité University Clinic provides medical treatments for the Desert Flower Centre for FGM (female genital mutilation) patients. They are specialized in the treatment and operation technics for Kolo-Proctology and pelvic complaints. Many women in Africa suffers by the consequences of  FGM and physical abuses. Bettina Wulkow recently has contacted Mr. Bernd Quoß, Chairman of the Hospital Waldfriede and Director of the Desert Flower Centre in Berlin. He mentioned that the situation of the involved women in Africa is still critical and there is still a big need of help. Our foundation intends to help again to reduce the harm of girls and young women and to make a treatment in Berlin or in Africa possible. Even the education during their stay in the Hospital or a Rescue Centre is our issue. Steady doctors of the Desert Flower Centre-Waldfriede Berlin are operating e.g. in Kenya/Africa to treat there women. We have decided to sponsorship a new cooperation project of the Desert Flower Centre Waldfriede Hospital Berlin the charitable work of Ms.Evelyne Brenda in Kenyan rural communities. Therefore we recently contacted Evelyne. Continued support of the Dieter & Bettina Wulkow Foundation: The Foundation is deeply impressed by the sustained commitment of the Hospital Waldfriede Berlin-Desert Flower Center and has decided to join the cooperation project „Help for the rescue centers“ of Evelyn Brenda in Kenia. The foundation will promote this project with a financial contribution. The focus is also to support school education and continuing education for the girls and women concerned. Eveline Brenda came to Germany 20 years ago with her husband Frank. They met in Somalia where they cared for girls and women suffering in FGM. Originally Eveline comes from the Kisi community in Kenia. With the support of the Hospital Waldfriede Evelyne is supervising 3 rescue centres where girls and young women can get medical help and treatment to prevent them from FGM. She recently sent us a short report which we like to quote: Evelyn calls her patients whom she rescued from FGM „her girls“. She knows their courage and strength to endure humiliation and celebrates the new liberty the girls discover. With Evelyne the girls became a voice to speek about their personal experience of their FGM trauma. In 2016 together with her collegue Dr. Cornelia Strunz/Desert Flower Centre Hospital Waldfriede she was awarded with the Louise-Schröder-Medal for her tireless work on FGM involved women. The Rescue Centres Kajiado, Bisil and Samburu are a safe sanctuary for the girls and women suffering in FGM, domestic violence and forced marriage. So far 160 girls escaped the cultural rite and came to these rescue centers. They not only receive there medical treatment but also the possibillity to get education or to complete an apprenticeship. This is a wonderful help cause girls in Kenyan Communities eg. Maasai, Samburu, Marakwet, Kuria, Gusii and Pokt where FGM is widely spreaded, they will be forced to marry in a young age and to leave the school to be a futural mother and they have to take care for their children and their new family. Evelyne mentioned that the girls and women need psychosocial support after the FGM treatment to deal with the social effects of this process in their communities and also in their families. Evelyne reported that despite of their circumstances some of her girls could finish school sucessfully or could get a University Degree. (all photos by Evelyne Brenda, approved for publishing)

More information see also our realized project no. 1/2016