MercySalifu

  When you make a phone call to someone who does not know you, start the conversation by introducing yourself instead of hello. Don’t call someone more than twice continuously. If they don’t pick up your call that means they have something more important to attend to. When you are in a multilingual group, use a language that everyone in the group understands Treat the janitor with the same respect as the CEO. Nobody is impressed at how rude you are towards someone below you but people will notice if you treat them with dignity. If you tease someone and they don’t seem to enjoy it, stop it and never do it again. When someone shows you a photo on their phone, don’t swipe left or right. You never know what’s next. Don’t ask awkward questions like ‘why aren’t you married yet?’ Or ‘why don’t you have kids’ and when meeting someone after a long time, unless they want to talk about it, don’t ask them their age and salary. When a colleague is leaving the organization, don't ...

I was born in an era where Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) was prevalent and some young women from Upper West and East region of Ghana found it a privilege to participate in these rituals. Growing up I read about the adverse effect of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) at my elementary stage and what government and NGOs were doing to eradicate such practices. The knowledge I acquired then about FGM practices was just for examination purpose; this knowledge was not impactful psychologically and emotionally on me until I started asking questions about what really is FGM. After getting feedback from the series of questions I posed and researching intensively into the matter I finally realized that FGM is a whole lot more than I know and it has lasting physical and mental consequences on victims and therefore needs to be discussed so that girls and women no longer have to suffer in silence Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) as defined by Wikipedia is the removal o...