democracy and autonomy from china. 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 and channel. movie new screen movie and. why is it then we are being silent. about the lives of these girls. not about you and me there's. no sex in. there. i know everyone was looking.

for. him. this is the house where the happened. i remember that day that he was yesterday. this is where i went from being just a normal young girl to being a survivor of f.c. i'm. a little girl. female genital mutilation named guinea 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

are cutting 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 or born usually from a week old to that age of adama since 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.

so with $80.00 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 opportunity to have economic mobility to own their own businesses to take care of themselves. they project of 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 how america. evoke well nothing at all oh my god oh oh

our humanity our bob. what our social media our work with n.b.c. . 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 all corner m f g m and we use social media through the 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 respond to it so we social media is critical it's critical to everything that we do that.

this is a room that i was moving in. what i was cut. so i heard conversations and single. so i wanted to run away. but they come walk outside to the corridor. 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 then there's this moment where in that movement where i just feel like the shot put. and.

what was. it i describe it like. imagine when you're opening up because of. that slowness of opening as a perk. and. by the way i could feel my couscous. off. and then came. to. my mind as a good twat to see because i'll get. to work i'm. not eating my

boo me. and my. poor quality no to take he only thinks easy because i try he said. 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 pork was cool if. less. and less cool yourself was like suzy. girls were. good were. these of the dissonance a. posse group was at on today to do fair d.v.m. people whose all songs on. the good outcome be a nice easy for a good listener. 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 a call 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 f g m it's almost like a secret so stuff. was. cranky week who. 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 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. man. yet when we're doing the dance we use social media to tell people where we are going to be the. people who are the young people that 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 doesn't know the actual count and

i'm glad that 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 they will be ok to be a woman that we don't have to explain. to space that we have to do. not everyone who writes books has to go insane. to tell you literature list. must treat. you know

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