Transcripts For DW Shift 20240714

For. This is the house where the cutting happened. I remember that day like it was yesterday. This is where i went from being just a normal young girl to being a survivor of f g i. Look at me look me. In the female genital mutilation name d. N. A. Is rampant we are to countries with the 2nd highest rate of girls and women who are caught between 96 percent and 98 percent of all women and girls in guinea have caught the reason why fighting f. E. M. In the country is so difficult. Is that it crosses social barriers educated people according their children educated people are cutting their children poor people are cutting rich people are cutting christians are cutting muslims are cutting people who dont believe in any religion and are actually practicing religion and also cutting all. Girls are cut from one day of born to about anywhere between 10 and 11 sometimes if its later its 121314 so its from one day are born usually from a week old to dot in a dallas and the cut. There is no limits foundation was started in 2008 with my sister mariama one year america leavitts and myself we started with 1000. 00. So with it in dallas and the dream we knew that we wanted people to have dignity and to be able to help themselves so all of our programs are based in communities we work with local and we do micro loans we give women and girls the opportunity to have economic mobility to own their own businesses to take care of themselves. They project of s. G. M. Only start in 26. 00 or not you know and go to us it is not just about dropping the rate of g. M. Its about creating a new culture its about creating a new tradition and a new norm in our society no matter. Although coke will never have no model oh ill never see our bob. What our social media work when they say. I actually use social media to connect with other sister activists around the world and i fighting against after sisters from sudan from india from you know somalia all working in the old corner and the g. M. And we use social media to group to savage and to support one another. Sometimes in activist my god thats the. And tell us what do i do and we help them get spawn to it so we social media is critical its critical to everything that we do. This is the room that i was living. When i was cut. So i heard conversations and some get. A path. So i wanted to run away. But they come when i walk outside to cordier. And then we line up with my cousin and others. And i would take the long walk. I cant see what theyre doing but 1st this moment where in that movie where ive just you know like the shot put. In a. What is. It i describe it like. Imagine when youre opening up because of. That slowness of opening as a perk. And. Feel like little. Off. And then came. The computer. 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Was was was. Was. Was was. What we are doing is to remove the secrecy around the cutting so we want people to be able to understand it so that they understand that one you know the cutting is not necessary so we are doing alter the to vote right of passage. What the communities showed us was how they used to celebrate the girls but then you will end with the cutting and what we are trying to do western history teach them that you can still celebrate girls you can still celebrate your tradition but you dont need to do the fighting. Man. Yet when were doing a dance we use social media to tell people where were going to be heard. On the young people dont force it also so media tie goes to web and talk about how we are talking about jihad and the fact that they are there now staying at. Home and. Just cut hundreds of girls from her recollection so the actual count and im glad there she promised to me she sort of got there she will mark a child again. My dream is that women will these ads. 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