# Hibo Wardere (Hibo Wardheere)

> Hibo Wardere: London campaigner against FGM, author of the memoir Cut (2016).

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## Who is she?

Hibo Wardere is a Somali-born campaigner against female genital mutilation (FGM), author and public speaker ([Wikipedia, Hibo Wardere](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibo_Wardere)). She was subjected to FGM at the age of six, and came to London as a teenage refugee in 1989 (same source). She lives in Walthamstow (same source). See [Somalis in London](/en/diaspora/london/).

## Campaigning

She has said that NHS doctors rarely asked about or recorded her FGM ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibo_Wardere)). While training as a teaching assistant she wrote about her experience in an essay, and was then asked to speak to 120 teachers (same source). She went on to work as a mediator and FGM educator for Waltham Forest, helping pupils at risk and training doctors and police (same source).

Her story has appeared in the BBC, *The Guardian* and *The Telegraph* (same source). Her memoir, *Cut*, was published in April 2016 (same source).

## In short

A London educator and author who has become one of Britain's best-known voices against FGM.

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