Sain juuri teille luettavaksi Bezuneshin ja Tesfayen upean ja
rohkaisevan raportin Zaman matkastaan. Bezunesh ja Tesfaye käyttävät tehokasta pedagogiikkaa, jossa opetuksensa päätteeksi he laittavat ihmiset pohtimaan opetuksensa aiheita ryhmissä. Tällöin kuulijat eivät voi sivuuttaa oppimiaan asiaoita, vaan joutuvat muokkaamaan itselleen oman mielipiteen. Raportin lopussa on tiivistelmä heidän opetuksestaan. Ja sellaisen pläjäyksen jälkeen mielipiteen muokkaus ei ole enää lainkaan vaikeaa! Opetus on todella suoraa, ja siinä puhutaan asioista, joista enin osa leikatuista naisista eivät ole koskaan uskaltaneet kertoa kenellekään, ja josta miehet eivät edellä mainitusta syystä tiedä mitään.
Myöskin Askel-lehden artikkelista saa kuvan siitä, kuinka valtavan voimallista ja tehokasta opetuksensa on, laitan sen vielä tämän postauksen päätteeksi. Artikkeli on todella WOW!!! Siis tunteita ja toivoa herättävä, kannattaa todellakin lukea! Myöskin artikkelin kautta saa vähän toisenlaisen näkökulman Bezuneshin ja Tesfayen työhön kuin raporteistaan. Hehän eivät raportoi ihmisten tunteista ja tunnelmista, mutta artikkelissa ne tulevat hyvin vahvasti esiin. Tässä tämä Bezuneshin ja Tesfayen upea raportti kuitenkin ensin (suluissa olevat suomenkieliset kommentit ovat Henrican):
The forth work report concerning FGM
Topic: The Harmful Effects of FGM
As
we informed to you before we have been teaching this time in Zama
congregation in Kambata people among in a christian community for three
days. Our teaching focused on the harmful effects of FGM. Following
groups were participating:
* Congregant Leaders
* Women Leaders
* Youth Groups
* Sunday school Teachers
*Prayer Group facilters
* Diacons Group
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One cutter women and some participants from congregation members. They
are married and unmarried, circumcised and uncircumcised both female and
male.
The following picture is shows the learners.
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Zaman kyläläisiä, oikealla Bezunesh poikansa sylissään sekä Tesfaye. |
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Our preparation is not only training but it includes preparing coffee
with bread and we gave some present for the cutter women
(ympärileikkaaja kärsii tulojen menetyksestä lopetettuaan toimintansa, joten hieno ele tukea häntä päätöksessään). The teaching time was not conducted only by ourselves but
it had also a group discussion and presentation for all learners in
three groups.
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First group. |
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The
first group is rising different questions and discussing about the
harmful practice of FGM. Finally they accept to teach the other and to
stop this kind of cultural bad action.
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Second group. |
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This
second group is raising theological questions, like why the bible is
silent about FGM and what is our biblical answer to other
christians about this? So for future time they said thay want more awareness and
scriptural evidence (tarkoittaa Raamattuun perustuvaa näyttöä) about the harmfulness of FGM.
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Third group. |
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This last group said they will start to stop any kind of bad cultural practice in our home.
Our teaching about harmfulness of FGM we brought as the following:
Depending
on the types of the procedure of FGM all or most of female sexual
organ’s external parts are removed in the process of mutilation. As a
result it causes immediate and long term health complications on the
health of the circumcised female. The immediate complications are that
could happen within ten days of the operation. Its severity depends on
the expertise of the operator and the environment where the operation
takes place. Some of them are severing pain and marital fidelity.
The
long term consequences include urinary and reproductive tract
infection, caused by obstructed flow of urine and menstrual blood,
various forms of scarring and infertility. The first episode of sexual
intercourse will often be extremely painful for excised women in needing
to open the labia majora and to allow their partner access to the
vagina. It may cause the second cut sometimes performed by the partner
with a knife and can cause other complications. As a result vulva lacks
its function.
So as we taught our learners
the two kinds of these harmful effects of FGM are a continuously problem
of women in their lives every time. So that, we ask them three
questions and they discussed these three questions.
The first question
is: what are the reasons to practice FGM in the lives of women through
culture and religion? Some group members said that Kambata people
practiced this traditional practice by saying some unbiblical points.
For example,
-to prepare adulthood and marriage ,
-to reduce wife’s sexual desires in order to indemnify her faithfulness to her husband in their marriage relation,
-to prevent problems of labor and delivery,
-to conform traditional requirements,
-for cleanness,
-beautifulness after the removal of the clitoris.
In
general, the traditionalist excises women because their forefathers and
ancestors did it. For the benefit of religion there is no any reasons
to practice FGM, as also someone said among church leaders. When we taught
them we made the group into three and they discussed on the same
question and brings new questions, for example: why is Bible silent
about female circumcision? To answer this question we gave the
appointment for them to give the evidence within biblical reference.
Our
other question was: what is the attitude of the church on this harmful
traditional practice of FGM? They said that before church participated
within this practice when the girls was circumcised by preparing
spiritual programs. But after this understanding the church stands
against this harmful traditional practice among christian community.
The
third question was: what is your opinion as christian female and male?
They said that as christians we stand to teach our family, in Sunday
school, in Bible study group, in prayer group, in women group and for
the whole congregation members this new teaching.
Also this time we could interview and teach one cutter women.
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Her
name is Zrare. She was potter maker in her ethnic group. Also she was a
cutter of women for a long time. When we interview we asked why you do
this practice? As she said that FGM was one kind of professional
work, a way of business and money. We asked if she is
still practicing this harmful traditional practice of FGM. She responded that now she stopped this practice because she
received Jesus Christ as saver and also because her
children are against this kind of work and also she fears the
governmental law. So that, she said she cannot do this kind of harmful
traditional practice of FGM anymore.
We wish all best those who read this work report in Finland!
-Bezunesh and Tesfaye
Ja sitten vielä Askel. Askeleella on menossa juhlakeräys Suomen Lähetysseuran tueksi, joka haluaa entistä enemmän panostaa anti-FGM-työhön. Se on todella upea asia! Kokonaisuudesta voi kuitenkin saada sen kuvan, että Bezunesh työskentelisi Suomen Lähetysseuran tukemana, mutta näin ei suinkaan ole, vaan Bezunesh työskentelee yksinomaan meidän tuella. Kuitenkin valtavan upea asia, että Suomen Lähetysseura haluaa tehdä anti-FGM-työtä, sillä työmaata on enemmän kuin kukaan meistä uskaltaisi ajatellakaan!
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Ilahduttava huomio, että Tesfaye pitelee käsissään meidän, siis tukiringin lahjoittamaa tietokonetta! Kone siis toimii ja tekee tehtävänsä! |