maybe there are three. sixteen. in the puzzle yourself on the whole it's not easy to go to another country you know nothing about the wife of i don't do this because we can't stay on venezuela i know . that because like global news that matters. made for martin's. this is d.w. news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes the women fighting back meet the grandmothers checking tensions in kenya for their safety. and the women who mean business also so the creators of she needs africa the catcalled helping young african women achieve their professional dreams.

i'm christine when the well come to deeds of the news africa i'm glad you're tuned in all around the world today people are celebrating what women have achieved in honor off international women's day we begin our program in kenya's capital nairobi with some brave women taking their safety into their own hands east africa correspondent melanie could have a ball miss 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 women like the sixty five year old gary . he would hear screams all the time women were attacked by boys who had come to

rape them. the grannies of coral got as they call themselves regularly targeted superstitions attackers going to leave the women were free and that sex with them could cure their own infection 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 of his but we took her body to the mortuary. and on that day we decided enough is enough and we women will start helping ourselves to planning to decide to do. in a force like korogocho as only women have had to bear the brunt of society so neglect and crime it is in this very community that many of them have been assaulted often sexually deemed as easy targets it is in here that they fight to

take safety into their own hands. running decided to fight back and others feel the same. roughly twice sixty five and ninety years old meet once a week. and defend themselves. and when i'm walking down the street and an attacker approaches this is how i fight. and i'm proud to say that i'm a strong elderly woman. it is with this pride and dedication. they have got a few taxes and raised awareness in the community refused to be a daily reality with the granny. if we were. now running princess she only hears of a case every second day and she will keep on fighting until every woman young or old will say and her neighborhood coming to. america to meet their

quota ten years from now this will be a new korogocho has there been no why even my unit will be known as one of the neighborhoods that people are proud to live in the from you can. do it in different . for women in south sudan and childbirth can often be a deadly experience the country has one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the world and eight hundred in every one hundred thousand women die in labor according to the un in our next report we made one woman helping to bring that number down one classroom at a time. 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 poor 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 may do if you are used to assist relieve. my those that you have the student share grace is passion but their work isn't easy 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. much so we may suffer from the and when we can still see according. to a history with me. in the hope of that person that is one of the must think of that piece having a family and to feed. the u.n. 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 birth but they're short of locally trained staff man and woman. to grace this classroom in the capital juba reese just the stance 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 the education if they were to have voted in assisting is that other people get i believe though money in south sudan will feel comforted. 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 leads africa is described as a community that's identify promising talent on the continent and providing

a platform for growth this was they women's day message as posted on twitter happy international women's day to all the lead moguls from today on would choose to make a difference michel voice the theme for this year's 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 these african a moment but first a little bit about who they are. i applied to the. consumer. and i don't see how you are there to. get mentorship in a network. 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 four through a network to help people access new opportunities to go their career so that can be shipped on how to actually design a cd or a resume to help you get that interview if you're going to 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 those been an incredible journey for us to that whole share it's all about sharing it creating a community encouraging other young women to go out there and they keep 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 had a couple of years back he 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 for his artistic edition of this here and let me pick entrepreneur is why then with

coaching and mentor stepped in accepted funding and actually put money into these entrepreneur and then they've gone on to they've wore their i hundred thousand dollars then tell with a business and what i think is even more important is that we don't want people to just stop with a family and start with that as a woman entrepreneur or go through one of our training programs then she or her information then do promo so that other programs other activities can support her so our entrepreneur the chip in for a venture is africa now the entered into of a fellow leader so it's really about there being at that point you can also have the opportunity to host networking in training events in south africa in kenya and in. all of our needs and even in the diaspora as well connecting it's going in canada the u.s. and u.k. also right and i guess your ear well positioned to talk to how are you in the

presence that you've observed over the years is it easier now for women to access things like spending 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 we could 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 given to other people arguing this work and so now they are definitely more like that limited programs that are focused on them in google have to put in many if they're living as a lot of nature that women entrepreneurs are getting access to these programs you know 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 the of mine that the more programs 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 programmed and loan targeted and women are

to do it but i think the hardest thing that will have to change in the general mind in courts across how to get a loan up is there is a business unit is so that their math thinking about the young are going to think oh they're not oh they're just doing this small little program and they are actually giving a lot of their chance the way they would any entrepreneur and i think the wow to change culture yes very quickly before you go what is your advice to that young person on the continent who is considering you know so the ring themselves how do they do that do they learn to code do they learn a foreign language so they try and 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 this filth that will not go out of it can be coding it could even be beauty that you turned into you to create or it could be food and

translating that into a global idea with think about what you can take what you're passionate about this because you have and how can you package it distribute it to 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 that people are all done for g.w. on facebook and twitter has come up to date and in touch follow us. to players. table. to state clinton who told them he was in

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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 arts 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 carolyn cool has a clear and can i but she doesn't normally find subjects for her photographs in

museums she is a war photographer.