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Italy biggest donor in "Adopt a Clitoris" campaign

Seeded on Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:07 PM EDT
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The charity "Clitoraid" is the most popular with the Italians, who account for 26.88% of the donations in 2009, according to the organisation's financial statement. This makes Italy the largest donor for the "Adopt-a-Clitoris" campaign.

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http://www.clitoraid.org/page.php?2

Following a statement made by Dr. Foldes on the barbaric nature of clitoral excision or female genital mutilation (FGM), Rael, spiritual leader of the Raelian Movement, decided to help as many women as possible regain their sense of pleasure by founding Clitoraid, a private non-profit organization whose goal is to sponsor any African woman who wants to have her clitoris rebuilt. An OBGYN in France, Dr. Foldes stated that, women and children who have suffered the atrocities of clitoral excision, which he likened to male castration in its barbarity, can now benefit from medical advances and scientific progress in order to regain sexual pleasure and be whole once again.

In view of the fact that a large number of Burkinabe women are now candidates for the surgery and with Clitoraid’s offers by a few doctors to travel to Bobo Dioulasso and help rebuild the clitoris of these circumcised women, the Maitreya Rael stated: “Instead of using Clitoraid’s collected money to operate on just a few women, we should create the first Raelian Hospital, the “Pleasure Hospital”, and operate on all African women, for free, with the help of Raelian or non-Raelian volunteer doctors.”

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Reply#1 - Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:10 PM EDT
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Hooray Italy!

I see that Canada comes in at a close second, Kudos!

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#1.1 - Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:43 PM EDT
Loretta Kemsley

I'm so glad this is getting global attention, and there is a way to help these women. Gladdens my heart in multiple ways.

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#1.2 - Thu Jul 29, 2010 1:11 PM EDT
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TDK227

I don't know if any of you have ever actually seen the results of this type of mutilation but it is horrible. I worked in a large trauma center in Houston and some of the immigrants we would see would come from countries where this was a common practice. You cannot imagine the horrible scars left on the bodies of these women. I was just shocked. And to think what trauma these young women had to go through.

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Reply#2 - Thu Jul 29, 2010 6:28 PM EDT
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