Hello im Christine Wonderwall come to africa its good to have you along in the democratic republic of congo Sexual Violence is widespread its still a huge happen today we need one rape survivor who hasnt played her ordeal destroy her her mission is to break the code of silence around trade and help women and girls shes also taken her passion for womens rights one step for. The south east of the d r c capital kinshasa swayed monoliths sunday and her friends from door to door trying to educate look great they will talk to anyone whos willing to listen. How old is she going to have been whats her name brand. Brenda you see her more near brandos age when i was 3. But youre liking him on a low stories unfortunately far from being unique in that you are seeing social violence used as a weapon of war. Twice a soldier repair when she was told a child later a Family Member also abused her sexually this. By the fact that so many women that at the r. C. Are victims of rape this to suffer widespread stigmatization. I was rejected i feel discriminated even ostracized some parents beat their children because they plead with me i tried to commit 3 say 4 times i didnt believe in live my life i couldnt find a reason to stay alive here what comes up but at 21 year old decided to turn her suffering into a source of strength she founded a mangy forcing my neighbor with him to break the top all around great by telling her story opening she has become a source of inspiration for many of our lives on his 1st few of you know one hour. If a man rapes your daughter even if you take him to court they will release him and he will be back in the streets living his life and you will have to take care of your child can you see if its one marked. On one or its public the way man will outargue because the problem of rape affects so many parents i am a has. However its not just Sexual Violence thats a taboo subject in the d. R. Seeing anything relating to female sexuality is usually off the table thats why in my real i felt she had to offer Practical Solutions if she really want to tramp our girls and women in her country. What if so the lack of sin is very peds has a big impact on girls school attendance. Because girls can go to school during their periods without senator protection and the girl on the also hope. In monreal attend her flight into a workshop and started her own business where she employs women to make we use a blue sun if you pat the companys called encanto which means woman in lingala so this these pads can be washed up to 400. 00 times and that means the pads can be used for over a year even 2 years introducing them until it. The monorail house also started meeting doctors to try to secure partnerships to support young girls in me. To see one of the new type which will be good to have doctors on board who can voluntarily bases give their time and their expertise once a month to help the most vulnerable females would be useful. For many girls and women this would mean Better Health care and more access to information some doctors working in hospitals are happy to listen to their problems but many are still hesitant to time them whatever in chile i would like to implement an Affordable Health care system for young girls we live in a community where there are a lot of taboos so its important for the girls to have people that can come and help them if they cannot get to the hospital. Or experiencing a challenge yes yes have to have given her a purpose in life she strives to improve the lives of women and girls she hopes that others will join her on her path. Well i recently sat down with a never congolese woman who is on that path today as member works for the d r c is justice and Peace Commission and just like emanuel is the need she is encouraging women to speak up against Sexual Violence and pressuring those in power to bring perpetrators to Justice Thomas thank you so much for talking to me is africa. You work in in a country a way a lot of women have been raped because rape is being used as a weapon of war. And we know in any particleboard in any situation where the woman has been raped thats something that she has difficulty coming out to say more so in a context where there is a lot of implications being ostracized talks about the work that youre doing to appeal to women to raise awareness to get women to speak up and why its so important. I walk in. There we have a lot of cases of Sexual Violence or women who have been abused by rebel groups. The victims of Sexual Violence or in small to Sexual Violence like and men want to desire sexual desire but. Which aims its destroying the humanity the dignity of women and most of the cases those women are really silence to talk about of this to speak out and my role is to go for in the villages raise awareness to those women and to bring them to hospital of pansie and we will use also to help the community has been through his influence on what her parents thats why weve seen real so to philip you work so its like counseling groups to a loud difference of victims to walk together to think about the future and to buildings the means of resilience according to the location and because into the look of means we often hear about these women we hear their stories and we might never be able to necessarily hear from them directly and i wondered if you could perhaps speak on their behalf at this stage and and tell us what they would want the world to know about what theyve been through and how the world can help. The big message of this women is to see what the people who understand to sit together and from solution for instance i have met a woman like a national she was taken hostage in the forest where she spent 6 months of waves and became as a sexual slave. But also she could see some of the global groups forcing her to transport the culture to bring it in the mayor playing but she couldnt understand she only knew that it was called because it is very heavy just like sons and she was asking him to keep on asking what do i have to do with this explosion of minerals why break have to suffer why boys have to become venerable so long time only because people want to get minerals so a 1000000000 other way to allow people to explode. Other them killing other than causing harm to. Very poor women and thats why the big message of say we want the world to sit together and see how they can explode mineral without causing harm we also want to that person because now im talking to you and there are so many other women who are being killed now we know where these people we know where the the rebel group but why cant the multinational those who have been right to fight for the poor cant focus on them to get them to be more active its just been since many adults were saying we want the u. N. Soldiers to be more effective and also we have these mobile phone companies why cant they put to use the Electronic Devices with belts and buying leads from the rebel groups trains thank you sir thank you thank you. Now going to a location you have not been to the for many of us turn to online maps will help but feel have been hoff of the baltic countries have been significantly mapped onli now youre about to meet the man trying to bridge the Digital Divide and put africa on the map he is congressman reports. Traveling anywhere in africa can be really complicated when you dont ever access to maps if you look at africa right now maybe only 6 or 7 countries are met. And there are 54 countries on the continent in within them maybe a 120000000 people his day job is in Silicon Valley but in his spare time to one the country is thousands of kilometers away filling in the gaps left by google street view being from zimbabwe and having grown up in the new made it makes in the region that street that became clear when to want to move to california a decade ago and he tried to show his new friends his hometown of harare a friend parent asked me to show them. The house that i grew up. So we went to my hometown of google maps and returned. Satellite view of. The. Car why do we not have the same. You know are the west and cities do so last year you borrowed a camera and went back to Southern Africa to map some of the places he remembered from his youth. Those images became the 1st instance of street view in zimbabwe. And he didnt just stick to the streets he maps some of the countrys most famous sites like Victoria Falls from above. The axis or resources to travel to the states that sort of just getting an idea of what the space may look like if you think does help you. Using his own money hes now mapped at least 12 cities across 3 countries by car and by foot. By way to let me. Drop through about 5 sittings. To the whips i climb to coast out of the Skeleton Coast thats the 2000 miles of coastline or long going to be a star going to coast. According to google only 87 of the worlds 195 countries have been significantly mapped the biggest gaps are in asia and africa there is a significant digital get were putting some of these communities that are left out of this platforms. Within cities and making sure that people in their cities actually ever access to tools that allow them to to live their lives night anybody else. Structure. After him out to raw google added several listings for local businesses and the information gathered by car could even help improve drive time estimates which can often be wrong by several hours but for to wanda maps have another dimension lets say mary. You know guys in particular we need that impacts deception of the world around us and i want to mention to people that maybe thousands of miles away from her she hopes to keep building those connections one step at a time. Well let me get french well that is it for now probably demi is african i will see you next time i have an hour and happy holidays. In the light of climate change. Africas michael says. Whats in store. For the future. E. W. Dot com for 2 major cities to incite. After. Christmas. And a very warm welcome to this special edition of our culture special because we are concentrating on one subject indeed was none other than Leonardo Da Vinci who painted the most famous picture in the world the mona lisa this year is the 500th anniversary of his death he is still considered the greatest painter of all time and yet perhaps only around 15 or so paintings of his have survived to this day this is extraordinary when you think of the influence he has had on the artistic world since that this important anniversary is being marked in many different ways throughout the world. Leonardo di said piano death. Toll on an illegitimate child on april 15th 1452 in. The tuscan polymath was a man head of his time and his discoveries an arts and science change the course of history and 500 years on the world is celebrating. Vinci onto a with the giants of the nice on. It out of the way 7 but a style that we know about the what it was always a visionary