in the art of victory for what's in store for the future. look for the major cities to injure hello and welcome. 1 to a new edition of the 77 percent. my name is liz show and i'm thrilled to have your company this is what's coming up on this week's show. we need some bartender tracy, who moved from the netherlands to ghana to follow her dreams. would i have been to solve africa's city of vera ben and explore its fantastic life and i'll chat with ilwad elman from somalia,

a peace activist who's dedicated to improving the lives of millions in a powerful country. in 1991 the civil war broke out in somalia and it's estimated that half a 1000000 people have been killed since then. a large part of the somali population has been living in poverty and fear for decades. militants have taken control of several areas, especially in southern somalia, killing and extorting money from the rural population. ilwad elman has made it her mission to help victims of the war in her home country. and she is using the power of nature and sports to bring much needed healing using the ocean. and yoga to heal from trauma is new to many in somalia. but it's just one way ilwad elman helps, former child soldiers and rape survivors overcome their trauma. she calls it yoga dish or a combination of yoga and mogadishu. the therapy aims to break down walls of silence

and heal sweating it out in yoga mat and then asking people to draw comparisons between challenging, challenging experiences like pushing your body to limits and testing yourself. and when's the last time you experience something like that? and it resonated and we all saw there's a body of research that's available on these approaches and we want to see if that also fits in a context like somalia. you know what didn't expect global attention for her work when she returned to her home country 10 years ago. she and her family were exiles in canada for many years. she was 19, didn't speak the local language and wasn't directly exposed to every day life in a war torn country. but her mother was already determined to go back out human rights activist, a fierce custodian of my father's legacy. raised my sisters and i as a single mother herself,

and decided to come back to somalia at the height of the conflict and was from her. i saw that, you know, you can be anything and anything you want to anything and everything you want to be as a woman. that's not a message. women and girls often here in somalia. so under her visionary leadership, i also was empowered, encouraged, sometimes a challenge to, to do and be more following in our mother's footsteps threw herself into organizing money looking after former child soldiers, also women and young girls who have suffered abuse. we started the 1st rape crisis center as a result of the rampant human rights abuse there. happy girls we provide services for children and youth that are being co-opted by groups and organizations. and another human rights directly is the freedom to life and safety and determination. as well too, but a job like this isn't for the faint hearted father was killed in 1906. then almost a year ago, her older sister was murdered. the painful experience led to question everything.

but she ultimately decided to stay. we share the same risks of the beneficiaries that were supposed to or were trying to support. and you know, i think the reality that conflicts often protract because people are waiting for things to get better. and that's why i think we have been in war for 30 years now. and as you know, pardon the pun, but pull the trigger on just starting the work. and that's exactly what did the 29 year old reported on the situation in our home country to the united nations security council? she knows exactly how to use social media to draw attention. we are hyper connected . everyone is online also. and that's something i'm very proud to also be a part of, but by creating opportunities, space and resources for young people to actually tell their own story. now more and more stories are being heard. it's important to show a different image of somalia,

not just chaos and destruction. for the past decade. work focused on emergency aid, but now there's much more to it. transitioning a lot from purely service delivery where we respond to violations and has grown into space. now we're preventing these issues from happening, whether it's through a change, whether it's through empowering and educating communities to end the cycle of harmful traditional. he says whether it's through working with government to put in place legislation to fundamentally change somali society. and she believes she can do it by her side. and this remarkable woman is right here with me in the studio in what a man,

welcome to the 77 percent. thank you very much for having me. so you are here in germany because you just received the german africa prize in berlin. congratulations. thank you very much for 300 feel when you heard the news. so very excited. it's a big honor, a big privilege, as well, to be recognized amongst 700000000 young people that are in there under the age of 30, in africa to be able to represent. and the issues that we work on to be a recipient of the ward handed over by the minister of foreign affairs. those all quite special. you do? yoga you offer ocean therapy, you offer book ational training to young people there. you also work with victims of the war with the rape survivors also with form of child soldiers. so all these different initiatives, the, what is the big vision driving them? all the big vision really is to create a peaceful coexistence. and we believe that in order to support and facilitate the

transition of conflict in somalia, a concept that has for attractive for my whole life, 30 years, we need to look at peace building from a triple nexus approach, humanitarian aid, peace building, but also development. we want to teach people how to be at peace within, and that's what we focus on mental health and looking at alternative techniques to be able to facilitate that process, whether it's yoga, football, surfing, and then also looking at the underlying grievances of conflict. and we know that young people, because of poverty or unemployment, are often recruited into armed groups because of that. so we try to both create the enabling and progressive environment for young people to not just survive in somalia but to thrive. and the whole issue of peace is something that one might say runs within your family. your father was a very famous peace activist. your mother was also very active as a social worker and a social activist, as well. tell me how this has shaped you and the work that you do. my parents are both are done to rights activists in somalia and my father to this day is

considered a small father of peace. he had a very famous slogan called drop the gun, pick up the pen and was almost larger than life. he had just locks were pastel colored shorts and really just was writing very simplistic solutions to old issues . so he had a football team in mogadishu before he unfortunately, was killed, which brought together young people that were being co-opted by the words. and that were opposing factions on both sides. and before people knew, they started playing it to trevor. they started trading together into marrying and something as simple as football was a solution that he gave birth to. he was so effective in his work that unfortunately he was killed for the work that he was doing. and that also led my mother to flee somalia with my sisters. and i so that mr. and i could have an opportunity for refuge and safety like millions of others that had to leave somalia because of the war. we went through the traditional refugee route and then got asylum in canada in 2000 and i decided to return back to somalia. but my parents'

activism and the torch of activism, if you will, was one that naturally was passed down to me and to my sisters as well. it wasn't a journey that was for scribe honest. but even throughout our upbringing in canada, we always knew that we had a bigger purpose back home. and i'm sure that a lot of people are happy that you have really followed that dream of your father, that you are carrying it on and doing all the work that you are doing in somalia because you're really impacting the lives of many people, especially women. and not just the women, but also the lives of many children, as you will see in one of your most recent projects. you can take a look there in somalia hopes and dreams. and that's for hoping to inspire, giving babies that haven't abandoned the streets, an opportunity for future,

a safe space where they can be nurtured, where they have a care and support and an opportunity to grow. we house children that we have had referrals from hospitals of women that have abandoned their babies after giving birth in hospitals. and we also give shelter to women that have unwanted pregnancies with the hope that they will not undergo and save abortions, but rather have that. but child can have a future such cute babies that we saw there is a tell me how does the work of caring for these little ones? how does it relate to the peace work that you do in somalia? i mean it's 100 percent connected. these are children, the youngest baby that we have is less than 3 months old, and we constantly receive new children and all the children is on that clip are

ones that are banned in the street. in somalia, the conversation of sexual reproductive health rights is not one that's even begun . and women are often able to hide and watch and pregnancies on children conceived either through sex out of wedlock, or through rape as well to through big clothing that we were culturally and religiously. but then just throw the baby away in the middle of the street. and we receive all the children i saw in this orphanage, through referrals from community members, through partnerships that we have with health care workers and police. and it's, it's a very terrible issue, but this is connected to our peace work because these children that are this young are also being born into war. and what we are providing at the most basic is a shelter for them. and others who care for them and so do, and that's all the babies need right now, but we also need to prepare them vironment in which they're supposed to evolve and grow. so that the next generation, or even in their childhood, they won't have to continuously live in armed conflict. and do you not only care

for, for the youngest in the society, but also you work together with us and you say that you believe that you can change social norms if you work together with the young people in somalia, what potential do you see in the young people, some of you. absolutely. i mean our population 78 percent is under the age of 30, of that 44 percent is under the age of 15. and they have only ever known war 30 years of conflict to so it's simple math. we know that if we want to create a paradigm shift of a positive trajectory in somalia, we need to invest in the majority and majority young people. so we work with those are the most vulnerable society, survivors of sexual gender based violence. children and young people that have joined armed groups and are now we building reclaim their lives. but also working with the overwhelming majority of young people that have not been victims of conflict, but are in these conditions have never left and trying to be part of the change. so i believe in cultivating leadership in providing skills, opportunities for creative platforms and cultivating leadership. as well too,

so young people can actually be part of the transition of leadership in the country . thank you so much. thank you for showing us that we young people actually need to be the change that we want to see in our societies and all the best for the work that you come to you are doing in somalia. thanks so much for being here. and you very much, and now we move on to another woman who was also decided to relocate back to the continent. and she's the kind of person that you want as a friend because it's always happy hour where she is. i mean, the street watching, born in germany, grew up in probably growing up in holland. you do have an african niche. you feel like an african i was not sure. that's right. that there are other points that come to know where you're from. ground where you are not going to

african you know what? i'm buying tickets. and then what they actually think if you come out of the police in the 1st, in the heat from coming here to see what's going on. and i'm coming back here tonight to tell him this enough for me. so many other partner and he trying to pawn is what i trace to come to god not coming through. what you can doing in bismarck, which is out here because he was born in london, but he was already given here for a few years. so he felt that there was more opportunities out here for me than didn't in poland doing this in 95 year old. so i actually picked up my bag and, and came to ghana and doubles it's for me, it was number 10 for me. i'm talking to people that live here where doing things for themselves, no matter how do you start a business here?

how do i as well to a friend of mine, went to nigeria in winter for an event. it was much easier to find something that you can do not want french. i went to this event and those in need in time to bonds because in dreams and it was so poor. i know you've got to put a ring for it. so i think this is something to look into with. so i didn't research and i ponder school in a white for it's win, but for mine it was what was called an impact on proper interaction. went very well and that was it for me. and then i became the game i don't think an outreach to women in down on the frequency. i want to give you some of my. everybody wants to be a doctor. anybody wants to be a lawyer. everybody wants to sort out from a mother of 2 who are going up in holland. wanted to jump in holland, dismissed the government to come and do mixed drinks light outside, i think is there's more into it than death because in britain suggest you can actually make a living out of it. i'm living for me, it's, i'm taking money and i don't think yet how to make me be

a doctor as me to mourn to me, but whatever i'll make it is more than enough for an average in ghana in the next 4 or 5 to 10 years i really want to hold my own body like a place whereby, you know, you can come in for things, the new country i'm going to, i dream before you go, i'll just so my advice to young people out there in europe that want to move up to africa, it's going to be opposed to when you get an things are arranged, everything is in order and it's not hectic here. but there's so many of which is out here for us. we can make africa better. we can make donna, the place that people come and live life here has already done. it's already there . the place is a growing country now. so i'm just making sounds here. and if you need the perfect card to take you to one of those fancy cocktail parties then found does he is your guy his past and is the turn old rusty cars and to find the eye catchers, the garage, where he pins, those old rides is located in nigeria's mega city lagos,

and that's where our reporter met him. let's go for a ride. this is no ordinary afternoon. cruise in lagos, from dorsey. it's on this week to see the beaten up b.m.w. specialty tandem. brolin ranks to fire the classics. like it's on a vintage and therefore vision is just what we do. also don't we do this with think of the next project under the bus. wouldn't be too many $65.00 more days 1500 also. so business walked on,, trying to push this 982 b.m.w., eat at team, has seen better days, but the model is highly sought after and he wants to restore it to its cars are not easy because in families who own these cars,

you don't even have access to so you house on who drove the, whenever you find a new job and wish to ration time changed engines. yes, i read a post it on electrics. my own creative ability and push is to make it totally different from what i've been in existence or what they knew what a person can do. because if you don't stand out in what you do, there's no trend for you from helping out in the ask the boy to gates. it's made of vintage cars, entrained over 50 young people. most of the guys who come to learn his profession are from to leak. i'm gonna then very few nigerians

who are dedicated to his job. so we've turned over 50 boys from the sober company when we fetishise a farm's jams himself for $7000.00 us dollars. he also runs his vintage vehicles to the entertainment industry to make more money than a cow republish is costing me a $1000500.00 thereabout. then after i get, we do shoots for some ca prop for videos which some good money from the video aspect of it, but it's my passion. so i think i derive joins the nukes, were mine because an odd but what brand. so after 3 months of farm speed, find anybody what's a strike? step on it. i have to admit that vintage cars and not really my

thing, but i wouldn't say no to surfing. i love being in the water and i'm sure that with some practice, i'll become as good as these guys right here. they are from durban, south africa, and they are taking us on a tour. they have beloved city, as it turns out suburban is a paradise for surfers. my name is i'm a name is alvin. and we have vowed to show you around our beautiful city, especially our behavior and place, the beachfront known as the golden mile. a perfect swell and day year round. warm ocean make africa's surfing capital alvan touchy and like to catch an early morning wait before shooting off to work. the 2 lifeguards call the 8 kilometers of beach and promenade their office. but

today is their day off and the 2 friends can show was around for serious surfers, there is no way around the golden mile. this is basically like the breeding ground. when you make your name in the surfing industry, this is where you step out with the big boys and the want to. and this is where you seen and known with its beaches being parks and nightclubs. the promenade feels more like a big playground. not only for surface, the skate park at the bay of plenty attracts young people from all over the city. and it's hoped to have to south africa's skating nobility. our 2 lifeguards are no strangers here into a sport that screams and once again see flying and dance moves different people

and going to name different culture is good because it is easily accessible, free for everyone and safe. the promenade is arguably one of south africa's most inclusive public spaces. being able to skate and liberty is also helping to boost the confidence of young talents. to a sense of freedom makes me feel like i can do anything i can do in the top of my mind, and it's just believing in myself. skating makes hungry. and so we are off to the city to check out durban street cuisine. calvin takes us to his neighborhood where he promises the best bunny child in town, a half a loaf of bread filled with hot curry. this hugely popular dish originates from 19th century indian immigrants. basically, in durban, we have

a big thing to stand. so it does hold these amazing foods, these amazing curries mazie beyond these. so my flaws would make sense if some low coming through experience would be different cultures and do a bit while out of and went to swim school. when he was a kid, got smacked. if his parents found him anywhere near the ocean, his parents who could not swim, were terrified, he would drown. still today, many children never learned how to swim. let alone surf. to change that alvin and kaya found, it's a song zulu for together to teach children to swim and ride the waves like pros, alvin believes the ocean can teach them important life skills. it gives them their stoke, it gives them that feeling that there is something true to life and it's a sport, you know, you got to love what you do and that's what you're trying to teach. the kids

with more than 50 kids, taking part in hope to raise the next generation of job and pro sofas, not without merits. some of their protest is already competing in professional sport on once, keeping up this city's fame. and that brings us to the end of today's show. as always, i'd like to know your thoughts on the stories that we had on the program. send us an e-mail up to 77 at. com. or you can also get in touch with us on social media. and i leave you with music from the town kids that we already have them on the show . last time they come in kids who are going viral on social media for imitating famous music stars and politicians. here they are with their cover version. susanna enjoy and see you. next time

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