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discovery. subscribers. documentary. shift special digital warriors women using social media to help change the world. today i saw to come are a wants to end female genital mutilation in. media to tell a story to and as chance. over a new screen movie and. why is it then we have been silent. about the lives of. good amount of money

and he said that still no nexus no. no no because everyone was looking. for. this is the house where the cutting happened. i remember that day like it was yesterday. this is where i went from being just a normal young girl to being a survivor of f g i. look at the only. female genital mutilation name is rampant we are the country with the 2nd highest

rate of girls and women who are caught between 96 percent and 98 percent of all women and girls in guinea have caught the reason why fighting f.p.m. in the country is so difficult is that it crosses social barriers educated people according to children not educated people not getting their children poor people are cutting rich people are crowding christians are cutting muslims are cutting people who don't believe in any religion and are actually practicing religion and also cutting. girls are cut from one day of born to about anywhere between 10 and 11 sometimes if it's later 121314 so it's from one day i'm born usually from a week old to. adele listens the cut.

there is no limits foundation was started in 2008 with my sister mariama one year come our present leavitt's and myself we started with $1000.00. or so with it in dallas and the dream we knew that we wanted people to have dignity and to be able to help themselves so all of our programs are based in communities we work with locals and lead to micro loans we give women and girls approaching 80 to have economic mobility to own their own businesses to take care of themselves.

their project of s.g.m. only starting to insist on not you know and go to us it is not just about dropping the rate of g.m. it's about creating a new culture it's about creating a new tradition and the new norm in our society how americans oh ok well matthew i don't know mother oh oh our messy our. what our social media our work and it's. i actually use social media to connect with a sister activists around the world and i fighting against after them sisters from sudan from india from you know somalia all working in the all corner anough g.m. and we use social media to the group to savage us to support one another.

sometimes in activist my get death threats and tell us what do i do and we help them respond to it so we social media is critical it's critical to everything that we do. this is the room that i was moving. when i was cut. so i heard conversations and some good. so i wanted to run away. but they come i will walk outside to the courtyard. and then we line up with my cousin and others. and i would take that long walk.

i can see what they're doing but there's this moment where in the movement where i just feel like the shot put. in a. weapon. and i'll describe it like. imagine when you open it because the part. that slowness of opening was a part. and. the way i could feel like little. off.

and then came. to. my mind as good twat to see because i'll get. to work i'm. not eating my to eat. and my. poor quality no to taste he only thinks he's sick because the try he said who tried to have offended more than she asked son te amo sophism as you said a lot you know support the practice may kill so poor quest to live. less. and less there's also spikes is a. girl who are. goober and him. he's

a big song and. the who poncy cruise it on today do d.v.m. people who's all songs on the. bus who the good outcome be nice is in the. goodness of. its being. so i was not i myself i was mad at myself for not hiding what i was mad at myself for not buying it there i was take all of the scenarios he was always me i did something wrong. so for the rituals the way the. girls are

being lined up one day actually being cut those rituals come from the past and it is still something that people are continually. was . this is all about the secret of as g.m. it's almost like a secret sisterhood. was . the a week. thank.

you and it was a was was. was. was. was was was. was. was was. what we are doing is to remove the secrecy around the cutting so we want people to be able to understand it so that they understand that one you know the cutting is none necessary so we are

doing alternate of rights of passage yes ma'am. but what the community showed us was how they used to celebrate the girls but then it will end with the cutting and what we are trying to do western history teaches them that you can still celebrate girls you can still celebrate your tradition but you don't need to do the fighting. and that's. what we're doing and that's we use social media to tell people where we're going to be the good. people are the young people that force it also so maybe as i just went and talk about how we are talking about jihad and the fact that they are they're now saying that. you.

just cut hundreds of girls for her recollection so the actual count and i'm glad there she promised to me she swore to go out there she will mark a child again. my dream is that women will be valued. all over the world. that he will be ok to be a woman that we don't have to explain. the space that we have to.

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