up next our series shift living in the digital age with take a look at how women both wider using social media to side by instant discrimination and christine thank you for joining us i'll be back with more news at the top of the hour. the world is getting more assuming. moore's could just refuse a lot of problems. to global $3000.00 talks would seem british researchers to take a more optimistic view. the world is not always a good plan but it's much much better than it was. just to morrow's really getting

better. a global $3000.00 special report. starts aug 19th on digital. shift special digital warriors women using social media to help change the world. today i sought to come our wants to end female genital mutilation and. we use social media to tell our story too and change. every new serene 1000000. why is it done we're being silent. about the lives of. i don't i'm not

a body. and that's the. next is no. no no that's the only one yes ok. you're right. this is the house where the cutting happened. i remember that day like it was yesterday. this house is where i went from being just a normal young girl to being a survivor of f.g. on. the. 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 got the reason why fighting f.e.m. in the country is so difficult is that it crosses social barriers educated people according their children not educated people according natural john poor people are cutting rich people are cutting christians are cutting muslims are cutting people who don't believe in any religion and are actually practicing engine religion and also cutting. the. girls are cut from one they're born to about anywhere between 10 and 11 sometimes if it's later it's 121314 so it's from one day i'm born usually from a week or one. to adama since the cut.

there is no limits foundation was started in 2008 with my system mariama when you come up with levitz and myself we started with $1000.00. 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 we do 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 start in 26th or not you know window 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 a new norm in our society how americans oke oke well nothing at all oh my god oh our humanity our. what our social media our work and that is. i actually use social media to connect with other sister activists around the world and i fighting against after them sisters from sudan from india from you know so malia all working in the all corner and of g.m. and we use social media to recruit 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 that. this is the room that i was living in when i was cut. so i heard conversations and some good. so i wanted to run away. but they come walk outside look already are. and then we line up with my cousin and others. and i would take that long walk.

i can't see what they're doing but there's this moment where in the movement where i just you know i'd. put. in a. weapon. and i'll describe it like. imagine when you open a zipper that slowness of opening there's a perk. and. by the way i could feel my coons. off.

and then came. in the computer. as good twat to flicker so i know it was ok. to work i'm. not even my do me. and my. poor quality know it took to if he only thinks easy because the trial you said. about to have a family more times he has son te amo sufism is your 2nd lot you know support by law practice may kill so poor quest to live. less. and less screwed yourself most like suzy. girls who are out. there who

were. the biggest on the. film who posse cruise at the today do you do do you b.m. people who is all songs on the. bus who the good outcome be nice is in there for. good this. is. so i was not i myself i was mad at myself for not hiding what it was made of myself and bided there i was a call of the scenarios he was always me i did something wrong. so

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 continuing. was . this is all about the secret of s.g.m. it's almost like a secret sister hood. was . anxious .

which was was. 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 not necessary so we are

doing alter and to vote right of passage yet you can't be happy. with what the community showed us was how they used to celebrate the girls but then it will and with the cutting and what we are trying to do western is to teach them that you can still celebrate girls you can still celebrate your tradition but you don't need to do the fighting. and yes that's. what we're doing and that's we use social media to tell people where we're going to be good. on the young people don't force it also so media tag us to web and talk about how we are talking about g.m. and the fact that they have to now soon get. in and.

just cut hundreds of girls from her recollection so the not actual count and i'm glad that she promised to me she swore to get out of the shoe of my car child again . my dream is that women would be found. all over the world. that he would be ok to be a woman that we don't have to explain. the space that we have to.

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