open:fora - Interview with Binta Fatty (No child bride)
Channel: r0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation
Date: 2020-01-29

Binta Fatty is the founder of the education fund "No child bride". 
She is a Gambian national living in Europe for many years, and is the Founder/CEO of “Women Decide NO to FGM & child marriage, YES to education for all girls”. 
This is a non-profit organization registered in Germany that advocates to stop all harmful practices towards women and girls and to promote education for girls. 

Women Decided  Are committed to ending Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage and any other harmful traditional, and any gender-based violence that affects women and girls.
Members of WD will work together to end FGM and Child and Forced  Marriage at community, local, national and global level

She organized on 25th Nov 2018 for the first time in Berlin the Survivors match  "Orange the world", 16 Days of Activism #HearMeToo campaign to end violence against women and girls. Then she organized on 6th Feb 2019 an awareness Demonstration for International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation #UnitedToStopFGM in Berlin powered by “Terre Des Femme e.v.”.
Back in the Gambia in Jan 2019, she organized several events in schools to promote girls’ education. 


Questions:

00:04 - 1. Please tell us who you are
00:43 - 2. What exactly do you do to help young girls?
01:34 - 3. What else do you do to prevent FGM from happening?
03:25 - 4. Why did you have the aim to be someone different?
05:13 - 5. Did your husband encourage you to go back to school?
06:17 - 6. What did you study after you went back to school?
09:44 - 7. Tell us a bit more about your realization
11:19 - 8. How do you decide whom to address about FGM?
18:55 - 9. Is the current afford personal or backed by an institution?
20:49 - 10. Is there a Feminist movement in Gambia?
21:45 - 11. Tell us about the prize you received

Links:

https://www.facebook.com/womendecided/
https://twitter.com/WomenDecided

#openculture
https://openculture.agency

https://opensourceecology.de/

https://www.globalinnovationgathering.org/