those weeks of negotiations led by the african union. shift special digital warriors women using social media to help change the world. today i saw to come our wants to end female genital mutilation in guinea. we use social media to tell our story to end as a chance. moving here 3000000 girls are caught. why is it then we are being silent. about the lives of these girls. did not a body raise there's no nexus no. no no no everyone watching and 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 me look me. in the female genital mutilation name d.n.a. is rampant we are to countries 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.e.m. in the country is so difficult. is that it crosses social barriers educated people

according their children educated people are cutting their children 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 religion and also cutting all. girls are cut from one day of born to about anywhere between 10 and 11 sometimes if it's later it's 121314 so it's from one day are born usually from a week old to dot in a dallas and the cut. there is no limits foundation was started in 2008 with my sister mariama one year america leavitt's 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 local and we do micro loans we give women and girls the opportunity to have economic mobility to own their own businesses to take care of themselves. they project of s.g.m. only start in $26.00 or 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 a new norm in our society no matter. although coke will never have no model oh i'll

never see our bob. what our social media work when they say. i actually use social media to connect with other sister activists around the world and i fighting against after sisters from sudan from india from you know somalia all working in the old corner and the g.m. and we use social media to group to savage and to support one another. sometimes in activist my god that's the. and tell us what do i do and we help them get spawn to it so we social media is critical it's critical to everything that we do.

this is the room that i was living. when i was cut. so i heard conversations and some get. a path. so i wanted to run away. but they come when i walk outside to cordier. and then we line up with my cousin and others. and i would take the long walk. i can't see what they're doing but 1st this moment where in that movie where i've just you know like the shot put. in

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it. so i was mad at myself i was mad at myself for not hiding what enough i was mad at myself for not buying it there i was a call of the scenarios he was always me i did something wrong. so. 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

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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 the to vote right of passage. what the communities showed us was how they used to celebrate the girls but then you will end with the cutting and what we are trying to do western history teach

them that you can still celebrate girls you can still celebrate your tradition but you don't need to do the fighting. man. yet when we're doing a dance we use social media to tell people where we're going to be heard. on the young people don't force it also so media tie goes to web and talk about how we are talking about jihad and the fact that they are there now staying at. home and. just cut hundreds of girls from her recollection so the actual count and i'm glad

there she promised to me she sort of got there she will mark a child again. my dream is that women will these ads. 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. earth. to millions of species a whole lot more saving. on those are big changes and most start with small

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