the history of the slave trade is of africa's history. for power and profit common to an entire continent into chaos and violence. this is the journey back into the history of slavery. our documentary series slavery routes starts march 9th on g.w. . welcome to global 3000. take a listen to this sounds like these are inspiring young mexicans we check out an exciting orchestral project in india some women and taking radical steps to stop

their menstrual cycle from work reasons. and like many countries the gambia has a trash problem but one woman is getting a handle on it and proving there is potential in waste. climate change affects everyone regardless of gender yet women are the main loses when it comes to its affects. 70 percent of all people living below the poverty line are women and the poor are hardest hit by droughts extreme weather and bad harvests. when drinking water supplies run dry it's typically women and girls who have to walk long distances to fetch water and that means missing work or school. when harvests of bad men are usually the ones to leave home to look for work elsewhere leaving their families behind in some places when there's not enough food to go around. so uncommon to exchange

a daughter for some livestock but does all this mean that women are powerless no in the gambia we met a woman helping both the environment and the many women around. what he would woman is so enjoyable because to be one is woman when ever they are committed they are committed and in any development into one woman dave only under the thumb of the adult in any case and they live a simple act it will you know for stability. but. these are 2 cs i has been called the gambia as queen of plastic recycling before you get firewood today you do not accommodate if you have to walk maybe one and

a half to 2 kilometers before you get to the forest the half maybe 10 stick that you can use for one meal you know it's to close off your time the real for people to get access to the chapel one with this one is the absence wherever you are in the country. freedom of that these are true is the founder of the ngo women is initiative the gambia it's found a way to produce fuel brooke hurts from the shells of peanuts or ground nuts for. the 2nd groundnuts or the gambia as main cash crop and export product left to decay the shells produced c o 2 and methane so 1st there crushed them slowly burned. who knows it them well. we are here for our families we come every morning to this place to earn as much as we can for them. so that allows us to pay the school fees and school materials. when i get up in the morning at 6 to come here and there are

up to 500 other women here. their families wouldn't survive without this job he gets to most of the look at will be those that are. one of africa's smallest countries the gambia is drowning and garbage to stop them reason plastic or use it was very difficult because to be in there you know kind of a development was everybody go to the supermarket and buy things i mean we believe that it's a resource that we can use and then point it into something and for that one people . do comedies and how do you do it is just about trial when people thinking about problems women behind them come out. at a landfill near seaside village these women are collecting discarded glass plastic and leftover fabric dumped by local seamstresses if you know what to look for there are rich pickings to be had. moran says high as one of these or to use 1st partners

she remembers that there was some initial skepticism about the project and the idea of women gaining financial independence. when i started in 1907 my family thought i was crazy. as a young married woman i was expected to get up in the morning and cook food for my husband in the kitchen but my family and my husband had to watch me heading off to the dumping ground they told me i wasn't a good wife they expected me to be home with my husband. they had no idea what i was up to. at this time of year there's not much growing and the central river region it's over 40 degrees celsius and the rains won't come for another 6 months but people still need to earn a living. it was a good trek to the man of the community and i never blamed him for that because

that's the main issue and that's the culture that we're living in what i want to set off the odd one who. is about to the reason that we are leaving and what feels man leading is not a problem but women also today they have a right to eat because they are contributing. none of the recycling center in the village of and you know where you start to see zajac comes from was the 1st and the gambia. she employed just 5 women to begin with they would collect and clean up all plastic bags and then when you enter new ones today up to 20000 people across the country work with or for her and geo. they produce briquettes soap bags jewelry and toys some of the best selling items are purses made from reclaimed plastic.

i will do them for he said to came along all we knew how to do is cook. now we have skills that allow us to earn our own money. village banks look after the money earned by the women's groups around the country so it does not disappear into their household spending. we want to empower them and want to clean them on economy how you can call me little that they have so when david said them one is from the fields of the losses if you just $100.00 you have to sit back and tell us how much you want to do you want to kick or whatever happens you have to put some money into here because we are planning for tomorrow. when you said to seaside i was growing up this area was covered with mahogany and acacia trees. deforestation and climate change have transformed the landscape into an arid step. we have to firewood the women be able to do for us

i'm quite pleased for cooking and there is not a placement for decide the problem that you ask that is why with that to me. let me youth with like grandma and me. that when can you move one at a time. funded by donations the women's initiative also started a project called reforest the future. water from a well irrigates the newly planted seedlings. along with indigenous trees like mahogany the women are growing mango and coconut trees the suppling source still in a tree nursery but will eventually be distributed across the country. you want to. be 100 percent sure that it will never be overnight and then you have to have an expectation that if it is 100 people living within your area 75 percent.

that's it for you let everybody tried to make sure that whatever you are. striving for equality inspiring others on our facebook channel d w women you'll find stories about women who are helping others lead self-determined lives. d.w. women gives a voice to the women of our world. i was ashamed. i was told i was dirty. i thought i might bleed to death. for a lot of young women the 1st menstruation is a frightening experience and in many societies prejudice and alienation make matters worse in some countries around home. when they're having their periods and

expensive sanitary products and poor hygiene conditions mean it's common for women not to work when menstruating either which has a financial impact on and sometimes menstruation even threatens livelihoods and women turn to drastic measures to stop it. have been qur'an is a sugarcane harvester she's only 34 but already she's physically barely able to perform the work 8 years ago she had a hysterectomy to stop or periods she couldn't afford to miss a day or 2 of work whenever she was menstruating but the surgery left her with serious health problems. that i'm in constant pain i have to take medication every day my whole body hurts my back my head my legs everything hurts. fieldworkers in india earn very little and none as little as the king carters in

harvest season they work every day for 6 months running and make the equivalent of just $700.00 euros in total they have to work hard because the land owners bank on 3 harvests per field perceives them if women stay home when their menstruating the contractors who hired them make them pay a penalty. 3 of these cane cutters have had hysterectomies to make sure that they could work as much as possible. but i learned when i still got my period there'd be 4 days a month when i couldn't work 10 euros would be taken off my wage every day in the long term that was more than i could afford right now. have been crowned lives in a village in rural central india where few women are educated over 10 percent of the women here have had their uterus removed in neighboring villages the figure is closer to 50 percent hygiene is bad

a doctor advised her to have the hysterectomy to reduce the risk of infection but he didn't mention the potential side effects which range from hormonal fluctuations to osteoporosis. he told me i would suffer less i had my uterus removed because i thought it would make everything better but in the last 7 or 8 years i've been in constant pain. never went to school she was married at 14 and had her 1st child at 16. is her 2nd son he began working when he was 13 and he's 16 now. well she went into debt to pay for her surgery basically the doctor who performed the operation and her boss have both benefited from her decision but it's brought her nothing but suffering with them and the operation cost 700 euros i didn't have that kind of money my boss gave me an advance to pay for it and i had to pay it off he made me

pay interest. 3 percent a month i was paying it off for 3 years you don't get. a few kilometers away in the nearest town where meeting the head of the came cutter contractors he also runs a small office for financial services. he tells us that he has around 300000 cane cutters under contract across the state he also says he advises women not to undergo the surgery. but that some contractors may have a different view. we will go with that but it's possible that some of them forced the women into it i can't comment on the us but even so i'm sure is only a few. well known mulligan i thought i might add that the layout of. the sugar industry is a bedrock of the maharashtra economy employing nearly $25000000.00 people producers

pay some $250000000.00 euros in tax every year that's why the authorities have little interest in looking into the high rate of hysterectomies among sugar cane cutters and investigative committee was set up but was soon disbanded. in. that there complained in front of me that he had been in front. of it so. somebody. that statement angers women's rights activist money should talk lee who is part of the investigative committee last year the public health department revealed that $84000.00 hysterectomies were performed in one district alone but the report was simply filed away. but that got it when get by says at a news it local authorities have the information they were taken aback by the

shocked response and now they want to cover it up. if suddenly the number fell to 13000 cases and now supposedly it's just 1300 that has out of. it as a would. khurana doesn't expect the state to do anything about her plight she hopes that when her son marries he'll tell his wife not to have a hysterectomy and she says that if she knew then what she knows now she'd never of had the operation. they break gender barriers in sports give unsung heroines a voice. and help others become more independent and out in our impact series we meet entrepreneurs human rights activists and bloggers fighting injustice and to be loose in their societies. people making an impact people making

a difference. but no fear there will be no humans on the planet why is that. because we have culture and we have culture that have for whatever reason taught us that this is an embarrassing kind of live which is strange because it's one of the most miraculous pieces of our biology. the coolest and ab to help women facing understand what is going on in their body in contract when your period is there you can track pains and mood swings and sexual activity and many other things that are all scientifically related to the cycle and then when you get back to its projections we can see what's coming up the next couple of days you can start seeing correlations across the news cycles and

that's one of the financial education. maybe this that when women king live well with their biology they can have a stronger voice in the world and i think the world needs to hear many different types of voices. i grew up traveling on motorcycles around the world with my parents and my older brother since i was an ensign so i've seen a lot of the world and seen many women's lives in many different settings and so since really deeply in the sense that until women have control over their own bodies and their own childbearing can seem really difficult to start having the good developmental cycles i wanted to in the world. one thing that we are proud to be with the news when they use this data is to do scientific work so with carefully selected research institutions we do science work and from our hearts with that aim to advance the knowledge around from my house so

that we can get this knowledge also back to the people who tracked the data. knowledge in itself is of course not gender you know a car is a car a space rocket is the space rocket but some take is really just saying there is a group of technologies that addressing needs that women have specifically because we have a specific body that is different so that a male. in the house is still not talking about a month it's under research it's also under funded with a lot of work to be done to really have a world where people can talk freely about the stuff they can talk about their headaches. do you close my learning. a new. music connects us it doesn't differentiate between where people come from or what gender they are it's

a language that's understood across the globe almost every child around the world longs to learn an instrument because making music dancing and singing don't just tap into our emotions they can unleash our deepest potential. don't. the last few minutes before the performance begins when stage fright is at its most intense when the audience is waiting expectantly that's the part that rosie enjoys most it's the culmination of a journey one that was anything but easy. but i mean for me some music saved me i used to have terrible family problems for me at. the. for tourists via the bravo is a lovely place to spend a relaxing vacation but in the mountainous hinterland most people struggle to make

ends meet. rosie's mother earns a few pesos selling tomatoes door to door. and i have nothing rosie grew up in abject poverty. her family still can't afford a modern stove. and i was going to name all sister when up our financial situation is difficult and my parents just don't have any money they have nothing in. the family has been through some dark times rosie's father is a recovering alcoholic he'd come home from work drunk angry and with empty pockets . the young boy in me my mother would cry my children would cry papa stay with us but i just got off drinking again.

rosie's mother was determined her children would have more opportunities than she had she signed them up for a new orchestra project offering disadvantaged children free music lessons it was a decision that would change their lives. the orchestra's musical director is crossed little by he's not interested in working with professional musicians chasing fame and fortune you want to make the tall girl select their students carefully they want the best in the world i don't care about the best kids i'm interested in all kids. the federal money i buy a son is an orchestra financed by donations it's the civically for children from poor backgrounds who can't afford music lessons let alone instruments what they do have isn't those eos them.

as members of an orchestra they're learning more than just how to play their instrument they're learning about creativity team spirit and responsibility. the idea is to make the learning music fun there's no pressure the students even get to conduct and have a turn been in charge it boosts their confidence for rosie the orchestra was a lifesaver. just is a bit i don't see that i'm so grateful to have discovered music it lifted me out of the misery and loneliness i felt as music is my whole life now. i thought all saudi oil feels like he's found a family to have fun and i'm an orphan. this is my family really i love it but. if i didn't have this then i would really be badly off and that.

there's no mistaking his commitment on foot orchestra practice is 2 hours away from where he lives. i have also passes on what he's learnt to other children in his village. it was but i mean. ok with me sharing what i can do with others is what drives me. you must going to my village pans over music. and that really means a lot to me. rosie now studies music at a university a long way from home. she takes piano and saxophone classes. it's a demanding program. slow

down you're rushing you're nervous concentrated. but rosie knows she can't take anything for granted accommodation food going to university costs money the university supports rosie as much as it can she's clearly a gifted student the feel armani i assign are trained her well it's an excellent. she's an excellent student 1st class we're doing everything in our power to make sure she can carry on. you see me here if someone asked me if i wanted a different life i would say no i'm proud of who i am but i had to grow up fast. and the best part is that when i began with music my father told me he would quit drinking and win back his family. and that's what he did rosie's father no longer drinks and he works as

a technician with the orchestra. today is a special day for the young musicians they're performing in via the bit of a main square. one that is so important it's a milestone for the confidence for all of your article. rosie is proud to be here. when performing the orchestra gets to bask in the glory of everything it's achieved . it's when the underprivileged young musicians realize that their accomplishments are an enrichment not just of their own lives but after everyone's.

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