i'm feeling program tonight from born in germany from the news of easy to our website d. w. it comes to africa to join us on facebook d w africa. is going to. manage. you know the banks. and who was the language of a bank money. speaking the truth google news that matters j w for martin's. view. this is deja news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes the women fighting back will meet the grannies packing punches in kenya for their safety. and the women who mean business to the creators of she needs africa the platform to help young african women achieve their professional dreams.

i'm christine one while come to the news africa i'm glad you're. all around the world today people are celebrating what women have achieved in honor off international women's day we began our program in kenya's capital nairobi where some brave women are taking their safety into their own heads east africa correspondent melanie could have a ball a group of grannies you really don't want to miss with. just a few years ago this place was known as nairobi's most dangerous slum presidents in korogocho lived in constant fear especially elderly women like the sixty five year old gary. he would hear screams all the time women were attacked by boys who had come to rank them. because the grannies of coral gotto

as they call themselves were regularly targeted to stations attackers believed the women were h.l.v. free and that sex with them could cure the only action almost daily one of those numbers older women were sexually assaulted raped on that it. was created. one day we found dead with broken bottles inside her body when we carried her body to the police but they closed the gates and didn't let a sin to get up on his part we took her body to the mortuary is just twisted and on that day we decided enough is enough and we women will start helping ourselves in the planning to decide to do. in the fourth set up like korogocho as only women have had to bear the brunt of society neglect and crime it is in this very community that many of them have been assaulted often sexually targets it is in here that they fight to take safety into their own hands.

monica has decided to fight back and others speak of the same. grannies rob between sixty five and ninety years old. and defend themselves. and when i'm walking down the street and an attacker approaches this is how i fight. proud and i'm proud to say that i'm a strong elderly woman. it is with this pride and dedication. they have protections and raised awareness in the community rape used to be a daily reality with these granny. if we could look. now running says she only hears of a case every second day and she will people i'm fighting until every woman young or old will say and herman coming to. america.

ten years from now this will be a new korogocho has there been no why even my community will be known as one of the neighborhoods that people are proud to live in from you can. do it in different. for women in south sudan and childbirth can often be a deadly experience a country has one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the world to nearly eight hundred in every one hundred thousand women die and they have according to the u.n. in our next report we meet one woman helping to bring that number down one classroom at a time. you know he's a yes grace low c.e.o. always knew she wanted to be a midwife as a child living in a refugee camp she was in or the nurses who came to treat those in need now she's on a mission to teach the next generation of midwives in south sudan. i needed to help

my women all my people in fact as an ass or as i made the way you are used to assist relieve. my that is that you have the student share grace's passion but their work is in c.z. south sudan the world's youngest nation is still unstable its growth stunted by civil war poor infrastructure and a scattered population mean women must often friend for themselves during childbirth many bleed to death in the process. but so there we are suffering from the thing and when we can still see according to. the day history. and the hope of that person that is one of the must think of that peace to have the . passion and to feed. the un and other organizations are involved in setting up

maternity phoenix across south sudan they aim to provide a safe sanitized space for women to give us but they're short of locally trained staff man or woman. to grace this classroom in the capital juba reese just the start she wants every woman in the country to have access to care if they were to have the health services if they were to have two k. should if they were to have all of the nicest things that other people get i believe though money in south sudan would have been a coveted. things oh moving in the right direction six hundred new midwifes have been trained up since south sudan's independence but the country still requires ten times fresh amounts to cater to its most basic needs. this part of the show is about the young women in africa minding their own business she leaves africa is described as a community that's identify promising talent on the continent and providing

a platform for growth this was their women's day message as posted on twitter happy international women's day to all the land moguls from today on would choose to make a difference michel voice be heard the theme for this is international women's day is hash tag balance for better let's build a genda balanced world. i'll be joined by one of the founders off she leaves african a moment but first a little bit about who they are. i applied to the. cynics. out there to. get mentorship going that work.

if will say is one of the found is off africa and she's joining me now from lagos nigeria welcome to d.w.t. africa. so she needs africa is about empowering women in business just how are you doing that. well hello everyone and thank you so much for this opportunity one thing we know for sure is that young african women are smart they're talented they are passionate but the issue really comes with the gap to opportunity so we wanted to create africa to create a platform to share information in it by the story through a network to help people access new opportunities to go their career so that can be tips on how to actually design a t.v. or a resume to help you get that interview if we got a grant on what

a pitch deck looks like and what investors are looking to see it can just be showcasing other smart young women who are out there doing that doing it to inspire encourage people wherever they are all across the continent and so the incredible journey for us to that whole share it's all about sharing it creating a community here encouraging other young women to go out there and achieve their dream right you're about savanah and i'm interested to know about just some of the things that you've seen happen over the last five and a half years some of the countries you've been to some of the young people that you've interacted with and the results off this platform. over the have couple of years you've actually connected with more they were six hundred thousand women across more than fairly by country and we've done that you have the right program and then we post the first picked up with our elevator program which we're excited and lose our thick edition of this here and let me pick entrepreneur is why

then with coaching and mentor step in access to funding and actually put money into these entrepreneurs if they've gone on to they've wore their i hundred thousand dollars then tell where they began and what i think is even more important that we don't want people to just stop if they're late and start with that if they want an entrepreneur goes through one of our training programs then she or her information we then do promo to the other program other activities you can support or so our entrepreneurs the chip in for a venture of africa now the entered into of a fellow reader so it's really about there being at that point you can also have the opportunity to host networking in training events in africa in kenya in. all across even in the diaspora as well that connecting is going to canada the u.s. and u.k. also right and i guess you're well positioned to talk to how the patterns that

you've observed over the years is it easier now for women to access things like funding to to get a head start essentially if i'm a young woman on the continent and i want to start a business. our goal is to work lead to go out of business we don't want to keep doing this work in ten to fifteen years so that is definitely one of the ways that we're measuring the things that you are going to other people arguing it's work and so now they are definitely more like that limited program that i've focused on them in google have to put in many excel it is a lot to make sure that women entrepreneurs are getting access to these programs you can work with facebook to do more digital marketing training courses all across many kuria and so we're themed at any one of mine that the whole program are we are of the gap and they do mean the work to make sure they go beyond just fifteen twenty percent female of all of it but how do we get closer to fifty percent where banks have opened up programs and loan at least targeted and women are to do it but

i think the hardest thing that will have to be changed in the general mind in courts across how to get a loan up is a business manager so that they're not thinking about the young going old they're not oh they're just doing this small little program and they're actually getting a lot of their chance the way they would any entrepreneur and i think the out the team culture yes very quickly before you go what is your advice to that young person on the continent who is considering you know furthering themselves how do they do that do they learn to code do they learn a foreign language so they try to get money just what is a very quickly in a few seconds what should that person be trying to do i want that person to think beyond their borders you think internet dick lee you can google instagram whatever it is to learn and build a skill that will not go out of it can be coding it could even be beauty that you turn into you to create or it could be food and translating that into

a global idea that think about what you can take what you're passionate about this because you have and how can you package it distribute it so the worlds. if we all say co-founder of shady it's africa from lagos nigeria thank you thank you. and that's i mean even the news africa you can catch all stories on our website and facebook page. by back. to. luis at full speed playing. with. a but always almost the flame mostly today and

in the future. drive it on w a. six make. raring to me. if there is any of your product benefits remember you have to find it between the lines. to literature a hundred german streets. ahead of the. welcome to arts and culture where we are celebrating international women's day is what's coming up. on exhibition in just a little pays tribute to the courageous work of female wolf.

we'll be talking about the oscar winning documentary that highlights the stigma surrounding menstruation in parts of india. and we make it meet a brave female took to us risking all for in conservative iraq. war photographer has to be one of the most dangerous professions around life expectancy is not very high however it is definitely not a male domain indeed one of the more recent tragedies was that of german photographer and in need ring house she was killed in afghanistan just four years ago and niedringhaus is one of eight female photographers featured in an exhibition and distilled off cold photographers at the front. when she takes pictures carry them cool has a clear and can i but she doesn't normally find subjects for her photographs in

museums she is a war photographer.