Their menstrual cycle from work creations. And like many countries the gambia has a trash problem but one woman is getting a handle on it and proving there is potential in waste. Climate change affects everyone regardless of gender yet women are the main loses when it comes to its affects. d 70 percent of all People Living below the poverty line are women and the poor are hardest hit by droughts extreme weather and bad harvests. When Drinking Water supplies run dry its typically women and girls who have to walk long distances to fetch water and that means missing work or school. When harvests of bad men usually the ones to leave home to look for work elsewhere leaving their families behind in some places when theres not enough food to go around. Its not uncommon to exchange a daughter for some livestock but does all this mean that women are powerless no in the gambia we met a woman helping both the environment and the many women around. Walking woman is so enjoyable because to be one is woman when embody a committed theyre committed and in any development into one woman be a really wonderful thing of the vote in anything and they never felt backed it was you know forced to deliver. These are 2 cs i has been called the gambians queen of Plastic Recycling before you get firewood to be did not accommodate if you have to walk maybe one i may have to get 2 kilometers before you get to be for us to have maybe 10 stick that you can use for one meal you know its to close off your time the real for people to come and get access to the chapel what do with this one is the absence wherever you are importantly. Freedom of that resulted was the founder of the ngo Womens Initiative the gambia its found a way to produce fuel brick hurts from the shells of peanuts or ground nuts for. That can grow nuts or the gambia is main cash crop and export product left to decay the shells produced c. O. 2 and methane so 1st theyre crushed then slowly burned. Who knows it them well. Were here for our families we come every morning to this place to earn as much as we can for them. So that allows us to pay the school fees and school material. When i get up in the morning at 6 to come here and there are up to 500 other women here. Their families wouldnt survive without this job to get it. Done with the look at woodlands that. One of africas smallest countries the gambia is drowning and garbage to stop them from using plastic or using very difficult because to be. You know kind of a Development Wall everybody go to the supermarket and buy things i mean we believe that its a resource that we can use and then point it into something and for that one people after the why do you come with this and how do you do it is just about trying when people thinking about problems when you think youve got brains behind you can come out. At a landfill near c sized village these women are collecting discarded glass plastic and leftover fabric dumped by local seamstresses if you know what to look for there are rich pickings to be had. Moran says i as one of these or twos 1st partners she remembers that there was something michel skepticism about the project and the idea of women gaining financial independence. When i started in 1907 my family thought i was crazy. As a young married woman i was expected to get up in the morning and cook food for my husband in the kitchen but my family and my husband had to watch me heading off to the dumping ground they told me i wasnt a good wife they expected me to be home with my husband. They had no idea what i was up to better than he did. At this time of year theres not much growing and the Central River region its over 40 degrees celsius and the rains wont come for another 6 months but people still need to earn a living. Get what they get back to demand of the community and i never blamed him for that because thats the mission and thats the question that were leaving in what i already said culture is also the idea one who. Is about the situation that we are leaving and what feels a man needing is not a problem but women also today they have rights to eat because they are contributing. Member of the recycling center in the village of and you know where he said he sees i comes from was the 1st and the gambia she employed just 5 women to begin with they would collect and clean up old plastic bags and then leave them and to new ones today up to 20000 people across the country work with or for her and geo. They produce briquettes soap bags jewelry and toys some of the best selling items are purses made from reclaimed plastic. And. Im going to the ball before he said to came along all we knew how to do was cook. Now we have skills that allow us to earn our own money. Village banks look after the money earned by the womens groups around the country so it does not disappear into their household spending. We want to empower. Them on economy how little that they have so one is from the ceiling of deposit if you just 100. 00 you have to sit back and tell us how much you want to do want to do whatever happens you have to put some money into here because we are planning for to morrow. When you said who says i was growing up this area was covered with mahogany and acacia trees. Deforestation and Climate Change have transformed the landscape into an arid step. We have to. The woman they want to do things for cooking and there is not a placement. Problem. That is why we. Like. That. One at a time. Funded by donations the Womens Initiative also started a project called the forest the future. Water from a well irrigates the newly planted seedlings. Along with indigenous trees like mahogany the women are growing mango and coconut trees the saplings are still in the tree nursery but will eventually be distributed across the country you want to make a change. Be 100 percent sure that it will never be over night and then you have to have an expectation that if it is 100 People Living within your area 75. 00. Thats for you let everybody tried to make sure that whatever you. Let it be. And it is helping. Striving for equality inspiring others on our Facebook Channel d. W. Women youll find stories about women who are helping others lead selfdetermined lives. D. W. Women gives a voice to the women of our world. I was ashamed. I was told i was dirty. I thought i might bleed to death. For a lot of young women the 1st menstruation is a frightening experience and in many societies prejudice and alienation make matters worse in some countries around home for all girls school when theyre having their period and expensive sanitary products and poor hygiene conditions mean its common for women not to work when menstruating either which has a Financial Impact on earnings sometimes menstruation even threatens livelihoods and women turn to drastic measures to stop it for them quran is a sugar cane harvester shes only 34 but already shes physically barely able to perform the work 8 years ago she had a hysterectomy to stop or periods she couldnt afford to miss a day or 2 of work whenever she was menstruating but the surgery left her with Serious Health problems. How would that but im in constant pain i have to take medication every day my whole body hurts my back my head my legs everything hurts. Fieldworkers in india earn very little and none as little as the cane carters in harvest season they work every day for 6 months running and make the equivalent of just 700. 00 euros in total they have to work hard because the land owners bank on 3 harvests profiled percys and thought if women stay home when their menstruating the contractors who hired them make them pay a penalty. 3 of these came cutters have had hysterectomies to make sure that they could work as much as possible. But i left when i still got my period thered be 4 days a month when i couldnt work 10 euros would be taken off my wage every day in the long term that was more than i could afford with the bride no. Koran lives in a village in rural central india where few women are educated over 10 percent of the women here have had their uterus removed in neighboring villages the figure is closer to 50 percent hygiene is bad a doctor advised her to have the hysterectomy to reduce the risk of infection but he didnt mention the potential side effects which range from hormonal fluctuations to osteoporosis. He told me i would suffer less i had my uterus removed because i thought it would make everything better but in the last 7 or 8 years ive been in constant pain. Never went to school she was married at 14 and had her 1st child at 16 but. Is her 2nd son he began working when he was 13 and hes 16 now. Well she went into debt to pay for her surgery basically the doctor who performed the operation and her boss have both benefited from her decision but its brought her nothing but suffering with them and the operation cost 700 euros i didnt have that kind of money my boss gave me an advance to pay for it and i had to pay it off he made me pay interest. 3 percent a month i was paying it off for 3 years you dont get. A few kilometers away in the nearest town where meeting the head of the came cutter contractors he also runs a small office for financial services. He tells us that he has around 300000 came cutters under contract across the state he also says he advises women not to undergo the surgery. But that some contractors may have a different view. We will go to will think its possible that some of them forced the women into it i cant comment on the us but even so im sure is only a few. One on my leg and i thought i might add that the layout of. The sugar industry is a bedrock of the maharashtra economy employing nearly 25000000. 00 people producers pay some 250000000. 00 euros in tax every year thats why the authorities have little interest in looking into the high rate of hysterectomies among sugarcane cutters and Investigative Committee was set up but was soon disbanded. In front of me. Now that theyre completely in front of me. In front. Of it so. That statement angers womens rights activist money should talk lee who is part of the Investigative Committee last year the Public Health department revealed that 84000. 00 hysterectomy were performed in one district alone but the report was simply filed away. But i got it when get passes out in use it at all local authorities have the information they were taken aback by the shocked response and now they want to cover it up. If suddenly the number fell to 13000 cases and now supposedly its just 1300 that has out of. It as a would. Khurana doesnt expect the state to do anything about her plight she hopes that when her son marries hell tell his wife not to have a hysterectomy and she says that if she knew then what she knows now shed never of had the operation. They break gender barriers in sports give unsung heroines a voice. And help others become more independent and in our impact series we meet entrepreneurs human rights activists and bloggers fighting injustice and to boost in nasa scientists. People making an impact people making a difference. With no fear and there will be no humans on the planet why is that. Because we have culture and we have culture that have for whatever reason taught us that this is an interesting part of life which is strange because its one of the most miraculous pieces of our biology. An app to help women facing understand what is going on in their body in contract when your parent is there and you can track pains and mood swings and Sexual Activity and many other things that are all scientifically related to the cycle and then when you get back its protection and can see whats coming up the next couple of days you can start seeing carnations across the news cycles and thats one of the financial education. My really theres theyre when theyre making live well when theyre valid they can have a stronger words in the world and i think the world needs to hear many different types of voices. I grew up travelling on motorcycles around the world with my parents and my older brother since i was an ensign so ive seen a lot of the world and seen many womens lives in many different settings so since really do you play me the same set until women have control over their own bodies and their own childbearing and some really difficult so start having the good developmental cycles i would want to see in the world. One thing that we are proud to do with good news with the useless data is to do scientific work so we carefully select the Research Institutions we do science work on from our hearts with the aim to advance the knowledge around from our house so that we can get this knowledge also back to the people who tracked the data. In knowledge you know self is of course not gender you know a car is a car that space rocket is the space rocket but some take is really just saying there is a group of technologies that addressing needs that women have specifically because we have a specific body that is different to that of nail. Holes this girl not talked about enough its under research its also under funded with a lot of work to be done to really have a world where people can talk freely about those as they can talk about their headaches. Learning. A new. Music connects us it doesnt differentiate between where people come from or what gender they are its a language thats understood across the globe almost every child around the world belongs to learn an instrument because making music dancing and singing dont just tap into our emotions they can unleash our deepest potential. Those. The last few minutes before the performance begins when stage fright is at its most intense when the audience is waiting expectantly thats the part that rosie enjoys most its the culmination of a journey one that was anything but easy. But i mean for me some music saved me i used to have terrible family problems for me at. The. For tourists via the bravo is a lovely place to spend a relaxing vacation but in the mountainous hinterland most People Struggle to make ends meet. Rosies mother earns a few pesos selling tomatoes door to door. And their. Loving rosie grew up in abject poverty and. Her family still cant afford a modern stove. I dont scandals animals sister or not our financial situation is difficult and my parents just dont have any money they have nothing in. The family has been through some dark times rosies father is a recovering alcoholic hed come home from work drunk angry and with empty pockets. You dont believe me my mother would cry my children would cry papa stay with us but i just got off drinking again this all is ok to my girl and i want to use. Rosies mother was determined her children would have more opportunities than she had she signed them up for a new orchestra project offering disadvantaged Children FreeMusic Lessons it was a decision that would change their lives. The orchestras musical director is crossed for elias hes not interested in working with professional musicians chasing fame and fortune you want to move the girl select their students carefully they want the best in the world i dont care about the best kids im interested in all kids on. The field are morny of ideas santa is an orchestra financed by donations its specifically for children from poor backgrounds who cant afford Music Lessons let alone instruments what they do have isnt those e as a. As members of an orchestra theyre learning more than just how to play their instrument theyre learning about Creativity Team spirit and responsibility. The idea is to make the learning music fun theres no pressure the students even get to conduct and have a turn being in charge it boosts their confidence for rosie the orchestra was a lifesaver. Just is a bit i dont see that im so grateful to have discovered music it lifted me out of the misery and loneliness i felt this is music is my whole life now i mean. If. It were music. I thought oh so. Oriel feels like hes found a family so. Im an orphan yes this is my family really i love it but. If i didnt have this then i would really be badly off that. Theres no mistaking his commitment on foot orchestra practice is 2 hours away from where he lives. I have also passes on what hes learnt to other children in his village. But im. Sharing what i can do with others as what drives me. My village patterns over music. And that really means a lot to me. Rosie now studies music at a university a long way from home. She takes piano and saxophone classes. Its a demanding program. Slow down youre rushing youre nervous concentrated. But rosie knows she cant take anything for granted accommodation food going to university costs money the university supports rosie as much as it can shes clearly a gifted student the feel armani of i assign are trained her well its an excellent. Shes an excellent student 1st class were doing everything in our power to make sure she can carry on and. You see me here i get i mean if someone asked me if i wanted a different life i would say no im proud of who i am i had to grow up fast. And the best part is the. When i began with music my father told me he would quit drinking and win back his family. And thats what he did rosies father no longer drinks and he works as a technician with the orchestra. Today is a special day for the Young Musicians theyre performing invited but of those main square. One that is so important its a milestone for the confidence for all of you out of your. Rosy is proud to be here. When performing the orchestra gets to bask in the glory of everything its achieved. Its when the underprivileged Young Musicians realize that their accomplishments are an enrichment not just of their own lives but everyones. Was. Thats all from us the global 3000 this time were back next week of course with more stories from around the planet in the meantime dont forget to write to us let us know what you enjoyed about the program and what youd like to learn more about you can reach us at global 3000 at d. S. W. Dot com and of course do check out our Facebook Page women see you next time take cat. Our clothes are lifestyle choices and fashion statements but they are ways to play and the environment. 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