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a tough choice like me because 5 to 15 nations 50 stories and 50 truly personal tips on berlin's very best. good amount. every week on t w. 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 too and as chance. here 3000000 go. why is it done we're being silent. about the lives of. we ended up on

a monday and me and the. next is no. no no that's the only one yeah ok. miller. this is the house where dakota happened. i remember that day like it was yesterday in. this house is where i went from being just a normal young girl to being a survivor of f.g. on. a little girl 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 cut 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 according natural john 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 it's 121314 so it's from one day i'm born usually from a week on. to that age adonis since the cup.

there is no limit foundation was started in 2008 with my system mariama when there come our present leavitt's and myself we started with $1000.00. or so with it in the heart of this 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 michael 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 $26.00 or not you know window to us it is not just about dropping the rate of f.p.m. it's about creating a new culture it's about creating a new tradition and a new norm in our society now american folk will never have a low mother oh our humanity our. well our social media our work and it seems. 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 malya all working in the all corner anough 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 get on 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 look overseas for instance and get. a pad. so i wanted to run away. but they come walk us i took order. and then we line up with my cousin and out of. and i would take that long walk.

i can't see what they're doing but that has this moment where in that movement where i just you know hug the shot put. you know. what was. what i would describe it like. imagine when you're opening up because of. that slowness of opening those apart. and. whether they feel like little. off. and then came.

to. my mind as good twat to flicker just like you know because i'll get down. to work i'm. not leaving my to me. and my. poor quality all took place he only thinks easy because like i you said who treating about to have a family more than he has son te amo sufism is your 2nd lot you know support the practice may kill so poor quest to live. less. and less who knows also strikes using. girls who are.

bigger song than for the little posse crews at the today do set d.v.m. people whose all songs on the. bus who the good outcome be nice is. a good listener. 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 take all 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 continually. was . this is all about the secret of as g.m. it's almost like a secret sister hood. was . cranky week who.

was 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 the to vote right 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 with this it teaches 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. the young people don't force it also so media tag us to where and talk about how we are talking about have to have and the fact that they are there now stepped in. and.

just cut hundreds of girls from her recollection so they're not actual count and i'm glad that she promised to me she swore to god that she will not be 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. to space the used.

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