District Committee 2390 Empowering Girls

Our guest speakers Elizabet Jensen and Myra Ekström will join us via zoom to share information about the District Committee Empowering Girls. 

For thousands of years, cultures that practice Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) have controlled women's lives in a dangerous and humiliating way.  In 1995, activists set a goal to eradicate FGM by 2030. Tragically, if anything, the problem has worsened. Rotary International President Shekhar Mehta challenged incoming governors to work with Empowering Girls this year.  Our own District Governor, Ulf Bingsgård, then asked Elisabet to form a committee within the district with the objective of spreading information about this appalling practice as well as other related harmful practices such as child marriages, early pregnancies, malnutrition of girls and other challenges that girls around the world face.

Elisabet Jensen is past president of Helsinborg Sofiero Rotary Club, chair of the District Committee  Empowering Girls and project leader of Empowering Girls on the H22. As a midwife Elisabet has first hand experience of women who have suffered from FGM.  Among other practical activities, Elisabet has spent years sewing sanitary pad for girls in the Island of Ukerewe in Tanzania enabling them to attend school getting better than average results.

Myra Ekström is a retired priest in the Church of Sweden. She has been a member of Rotary Louis De Geer in Norrköping for 26 years, but has recently moved to Malmö. She is active in supporting Network Against Female Genital Mutilation (NAFGEM).

This will be a virtual meeting ONLY with our speakers presenting on Zoom.