we think our suppliers for the last forever. but. when the rainstorm. starts march 20 years on to go. to the. welcome to global 3 thousands. take a listen to this sounds like these are inspiring young mexicans sweet check out an exciting orchestral project in india some women 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 losers when it comes to its effects. 'd 'd 70 percent of all people living below the poverty line on 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 it's not 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.

walking woman is so enjoyable because to be one is woman when ever they are committed to committed and in any development in the world one woman gave only 20 percent of the gavel in anything and they live a simple fact you know for stability. these are 2 cs i has been called the gambians queen of plastic recycling before you get firewood to be did not accommodate if you have to walk maybe one on a half to 2 kilometers before you get to the forest or half maybe 10 stick that you can use for one meal you know it's to give up your time the real for people get out

and get access to the chapel what with this one is the absence wherever you are importantly. if you don't have a record these are true is the founder of the ngo women's initiative the gambia it's found a way to produce fuel brick hurts from the shells of peanuts or ground nuts from. the 2nd groundnuts or the gambia as main cash crop and export product left to decay the shells produce c.-o. too and methane so 1st they're crushed then slowly burned. who knows it them well. we're here for our families we come every morning to this place to earn as much as we can for them. it 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. the good

group he was in was able to look at me with those that are. one of africa's small most countries that gambia is drowning and garbage to stop them reason plastic or using very difficult because to be in there you know kind of a development war 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 for that one people. who come with us and how do you do it is just about trying when people thinking about problems when you think you've got brains behind think about films. that are landfill near c size 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 two's 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 a book about better than google. 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. get what they get back to the man of the community and i never blamed him for that because that's an issue and that's the question that we're living in what i already said culture is also the idea one who. is about the situation that we are

living and what feels a man needing is not a problem when 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 is that we see zajac comes from was the 1st and the gambia she employed just 5 women to begin with they would collect and clean up old plastic bags and then read them into 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. and. i'm going through them paul before he said to came along all we knew how to do was 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 to want to clean them on economic how little that they have so when david is from the fields of deposit if you just $100.00 you have to sit back and tell us how much you want to do you want to whatever happen you have to put some money into here because we are planning for tomorrow. when you said to seaside 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. the woman be able to do for us please for cooking. for decided. that is why we. like.

any. one at a time. funded by donations the women's initiative also started a project called the forest 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 the tree nursery but will eventually be distributed across the country. you want to make a change. be 100 percent sure that it will never be overnight and then you have to have an expectation that it is one that people living within your area $75.00 but that was. that before you left everybody tried to make sure that whatever you are. i needed help.

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 half of all girls school when they're having their period 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 earnings sometimes menstruation even threatens livelihoods and women turn to drastic measures to stop it. is a sugarcane harvester she's only $34.00 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. how would that but 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 cane cutters 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 profiled percy's and thought 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 left 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. no. koran 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 but. it's a shock is her 2nd son he began working when he was 13 and he's 16 now. osha 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 cane cutter contractors he also runs a small office for financial services. he tells us that he has around 300000 came 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. but it's possible that some of them forced the women into it i can't comment on that but even so i'm sure it's only a few. and 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 sugarcane

cutters and investigative committee was set up but was soon disbanded. in front of. their complaint in front of me. in front. of it so. somebody. complains. 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 hysterectomies use were performed in one district alone but the report was simply filed away. but the got it when get by says that in 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. quoted as a woody. 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 heroine a voice. and help others become more independent as one part in our impact series we meet entrepreneurs human rights activists and bloggers fighting injustice and to be loose in their society. people making an impact people making a difference.

with no parents or be no humans on the planet why is this add to. because we have culture and we have culture that have for whatever reason taught us that this is an embarrassing part of life which is strange because there's one of the most miraculous pieces of our biology. course a map 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 to this and many other things that are all scientifically related to the cycle and then what you get back is 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 a lot of the financial education. really this that

when women king men well when their biology they can have a strong the worst in the world and they think the world needs to hear many different types of voices. i grew up travelling 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 so since really good thing in the sense that until women have control over their own bodies and their own childbearing it's really difficult to start having a good developmental cycle so i want us in the world. one thing that we are proud to do with the news when they use this data is to do the scientific work so with carefully selected research institutions we do science work and from our hearts with the aim to advance the knowledge around from our house so that we can get this knowledge also back to the people who tracked the data. and knowledge in itself is of course not gender you know a car is a car

a spacecraft it is a space rocket but it 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. female hose is still not talked about enough 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 those us they can talk about their headaches. you can lose my. 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 dump saying and singing don't

just tap into our emotions they can unleash our deepest potential. those. 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. 4 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. love that rosie grew up in abject poverty. her family still can't afford a modern stove. everybody is going to last and it will sister one 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 . jungle in me my mother would cry my children would cry papa stay with us but i just got off drinking again it's all it's all. roses 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 orchestras musical director is crustal elias he's not interested in working with professional musicians chasing fame and fortune you want to move the ball 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 philharmonia via santa is an orchestra financed by donations it's specifically 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 being in charge it boosts their confidence for rosie the orchestra was a lifesaver. this is a bit i don't see that and 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 mean. if. i thought oh saudi oh feels like he's found a family so what 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 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. his name sharing what i can do with others is what drives me. you must get my village bands 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 of my son 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. some of the hero get i mean if someone asked me if i wanted a different life i would say no i'm proud of who i am so you know 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 are performing invited but all of us

main square. this is so important it's a milestone for the confidence for all of you out here. rosey 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 every once. was. that's all from us a global 3000 this time we're back next week of course with more stories from

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