Gävle mobilizes forces against female genital mutilation: "Lack of knowledge"

The idea is that there will be better cooperation between several local authorities and businesses.

Among other things, maternity care, youth clinics, social services and primary schools should make it easier to detect and prevent female genital mutilation of women and girls.

- There is a lack of knowledge.

If you have knowledge, you see and dare to ask too, says Karin Berjlund, sociologist at Sätra family centre.

The project must live on

The agreement signed should make it easier to work with honor-related violence and oppression.

Staff must be trained to be able to offer the help that is needed - an important commitment according to Lars Flodin, head of the Welfare Office Gävle.

- The knowledge, the cooperation and offers of advice and support must live on even after the end of the project.

We want to sharpen the competence around these particular issues, he says.