Saving Safa

Resource Information

The work Saving Safa represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Saving Safa

Statement of responsibility

Waris Dirie with Walter Lutschinger ; translated by Ruth Martin

Title variation

Saving Safa

Title variation remainder

rescuing a little girl from FGM

Creator

• Dirie, Waris

Contributor

• Lutschinger, Walter
• Martin, Ruth

Author

• Dirie, Waris
• Lutschinger, Walter

Translator

• Martin, Ruth

Subject

• Female circumcision -- Africa
• Female circumcision -- Africa -- Prevention
• Female circumcision -- Social aspects -- Africa
• Non-governmental organizations -- Africa
• Nour, Safa
• Women -- Africa
• Dirie, Waris
• Desert Flower Foundation

Language

eng

Summary

Waris Dirie, the Somalia nomad who became a supermodel, and an anti-FGM activist, first came to the world's attention with the publication of her autobiography, Desert Flower. The book was subsequently made into a film and little Safa Nour, from one of the slums of Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, was chosen to play the young Waris. The book and the film record many extraordinary things - from facing down a tiger, to being discovered by a famous photographer in London - but it also tells the grim story of female circumcision, an ordeal that the young Waris had to endure. Saving Safa opens with a letter from Safa, now aged seven, who explains that she is worried that she will undergo FGM in spite of the contract her parents have signed with Dirie's Desert Flower Foundation stating that they will never have their daughter cut. Waris drops everything and flies to Djibouti where she meets Safa's father and mother who thinks her daughter should be cut to stop the community ostracising them. Waris brings them to Paris and to Vienna, they learn about the foundation and Safa's father finally comes round to the idea of working for the foundation as well. As Safa was saved from FGM through a contract with her parents, the Foundation believes a thousand other girls can be saved through providing their families with aid in return for a promise not to mutilate their daughters

Member of

• Rettung der kleinen Wüstenblume

Cataloging source

EUW

Dewey number

392.1096

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

GN484

Literary form

non fiction