When this picture was taken in January, 2014, 14-year-old Ami knew when other girls in her village, in the west African country of Burkina Faso, were being cut – she’d hear them scream. But now her community is abandoning the practice, and – unlike her mother when she was a child – Ami will not undergo female genital mutilation. The UK is working to reduce the practice by 30 percent in at least 10 countries in Africa in the next 5 years.

First published in the June 12, 2019, 8:27 p.m. edition

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