this is news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes the women fighting back will meet the granny packing tensions in kenya for their safety. and the women who mean business culture the creators all she needs africa the platform to help young african women achieve their professional dreams. i'm christine window while come to the news africa i'm glad you 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 where some brave women are taking this safety into their own hands east africa correspondent melanie kudo 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 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 carl gotto as they call themselves were 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. 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. and on that day we

decided enough is enough and we women will start helping ourselves on the plane to decide to do. in a force like korogocho as a few women have had to bear the brunt of society elect 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. running decided to fight back and others feel the same. as granny's roughly twice sixty five and ninety years old meet once a week to learn martial arts 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 gathered detectives and raised awareness in their community rape used to be a daily reality with these granny. now running concerts she only hears of a case every second day and she will keep on fighting until every woman young or old will say and honey you can come to. america. ten years from now and this will be a new korogocho of his that. it will be known is one of the neighborhoods that people are proud to live in the queen's. going to differ. 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 very good grace flosi i 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 you are used to assist relieve. my those that you have the student share gracie's 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 the 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 peak

and when we can still see a pretty. big day here. in the heart of. one of the most think i've proved that he has. a passion and. 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 now i'm going. 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 you have health services if you have a ship if you have own businesses things that other people get i believe no money in south sudan will be in a gunfight if. things are 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 that amount 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 lead moguls from today on would choose to make a difference rachael voice the theme for this year's international women's day is hash tag balance for better let's build a gender 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 this you can mix. and i want to see how they're going to. get mentorship in the network. because. if will say is one of the found is off africa and she's joining me now from lagos nigeria welcome to the africa if. 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 these 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 t.v. 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 here encouraging other young women to go out there and achieve their dream rights 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 past couple of years we'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 kicked up with our elevator program which we're fighting for who's our thick edition of this here and let me pick entrepreneur is why then with coaching and to accept in access to funding to actually put money into these entrepreneur it and they've gone on to they've want it i hundred thousand dollars then tell where they've been to and what i think is even more important that we don't want people to just. end up with that as a woman entrepreneur goes through one of our training programs then she or her information then do promo to the other programs other activities can support her so our entrepreneurs the chip in for venture of africa now have the edge into other

accelerator so it's really about there being at that point you can also have the opportunity to host networking in training in africa in kenya in. all of our needs and even in the diaspora as well as connecting the climate in canada the u.s. and u.k. also right and i guess your ear 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 sending 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 fifteen years so that is definitely one of the ways that we're measuring the given to other people arguing it's work and so now they are definitely what elevated programs that are focused on them in google have to put in a living as a lot of nature that women entrepreneurs are getting access to these programs you

can work with facebook to do more digital marketing training courses all across many curia and so we're themed at any one of the of mindsets and what programs are we are of the gap and they do mean the work to make sure they go beyond to fifteen twenty percent female of all bit but how do we get closer to fifty percent where banks have opened up programs and loan targeted and women are to new and let i got hardest thing that will have to change in the general mind in courts across how to get a loan up as a business manager so that their math 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 our team culture yes very closely 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 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 can 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 false a co-founder of shades africa from lagos nigeria thank you thank you. and that's why we need a five day deputies africa you can catch all stories on our website and facebook page. by back.

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