Honorata Francis Mvungi has been actively involved with The Grail, an international women's movement, for more than 30 years and has represented Tanzania at the Grail International Council meetings. She has helped to lift rural women in Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya from poverty by training them in the skills related to permaculture and micro-economic projects. Ms. Mvungi is currently working on family planning, health and education programmes with Maasai and rural women, including on HIV/AIDS. She reports seeing a shift in the mentality of both young men and women towards Female Genital Mutilation.
