these are not an option. and are stuck in the spanish border area. i'm sorry the young people are waiting for a chance that will probably never come. shattered dreams starts january 18th on t.w. . welcome to global 3000. take a listen to this sounds like these are inspiring young mexicans sweet check out an exciting orchestral project in india some women are 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 effects. 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 a powerless no in the gambia we met a. women 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 in the water. only under the thumb of the adult in anything and they live a setback. you know for stability. but these are 2 cs i has been called the gambia as queen of plastic recycling before you get firewood to be you do not accommodate if you have to walk maybe one i may have to get 2 kilometers before you get to be for us the half maybe 10 stick that you can use for one meal you know it's to close off your time the real poor people

are going to get access to the chapel what do with this one is this wherever you are in the country. if you don't have a record these are true is the founder of the ngo women is initiative the gambia it's found a way to produce fuel per cuts from the shells of peanuts or ground nuts for. the 2nd grow nuts or the gambians main cash crop and export product left to decay the shells produced c.e.o. 2 and methane so 1st their crushed then 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. it allows us to pay the school fees and school materials when i get up in the morning at 6 to come here there are up to 500 other women here. their families wouldn't survive without. job.

done was able to look at with them is that. one of africa's small most countries the gambia is drowning and garbage to stop them reason plastic or using very difficult because to be. you know kind of a development war everybody go to the supermarket and buy things and then we believe that it's a resource that we can use and point it into something and for that one people. who can read this 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 them. at a landfill near supersize 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 hi 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. over the years ago 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 better the good. at this time of year there's not much growing and the central river region gets 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 big trek to demand of the community and i never blame them for that because that's the issue and that's the culture that we're living in what i already said.

the idea one who. is about the situation that we are leaving and what feels a man needing is not a problem when women also today they have rights to eat because they are contributing. the recycling center in the village of a novel where you said who says i comes from was the 1st on the gambia. she employed just 5 women to begin with they would collect and clean up old plastic bags and then leave them and to 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. in. the body but it would. probably do them dog 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 to want to clean them on economic how do you economy little that they have so one is from the feel of the process if you just $100.00 you have to sit back and tell us how much we want to do want to do whatever happens you have to put some money into here because we are planning for the more. when you said who says 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 make firewood the women they would do for us please for cooking and there is not a placement for the problem that locally that is why we. that we both

like. and it drives me into that. one at a time. funded by donations the women's initiative also started a project called reforest the future. of water from a well irrigates the newly planted seedlings. along with indigenous trees like mahogany the women are growing mango and coconut trees the saplings are still in the tree nursery but will eventually be distributed across the country you want to . be 100 percent sure that it will never be over night and then you have to have an expectation that if it is 100 people living within your area $75.00. at the beginning. what that for you let everybody tried to make sure that whatever you are . let it be and it is helping.

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'm 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 for 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. sometimes menstruation even threatens livelihoods and women turn to drastic measures to stop it. 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. how would that play 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 percy's and thought if women stay home when their menstruating the contractors who hired them make them pay a penalty. 3 of these came 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 right no. ship in 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. as her 2nd son he began working when he was 13 and he's 16 now. oh sure 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. and that's how the operation cost $700.00 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 i didn't. a few kilometers away in the

nearest town were 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. 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. commented 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. their complaint in front of me. so. 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 hysterectomy s. were performed in one district alone but the report was simply filed away. but the got it when get by says that in use 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 213000 cases

and now supposedly it's just 1300 there that has a lot of would i be outputted 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 the gender barrier in sports give unsung hero ends a voice. and help others become more independent. in our impact series we meet entrepreneurs human rights activists and bloggers fighting injustice and to believe in their societies. people making an impact people making a difference.

will be no humans on the planet why is this ad. because we have culture and we have culture that have for whatever reason taught us that this is an embarrassing part of lives which is strange because it's one of the most miraculous pieces of our biology. the coolest map to have been facing understand what is going on in their body in contract when your parent 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 its predictions we can see what's coming up the next couple of days you can start seeing carnations across the news cycles and that's one of the financial education. really there is that when they're

making men well with their biology they can have a stronger voice in the well the next in 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 deeply 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 to see in the world. one thing that we are proud to do with the news with useless data is to do scientific work so with carefully selected research institutions we do science work on female 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. 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 to that of male. in the house and still not talk about amount it's under research it's also under-funded there's a lot of work to be done to really have a world where people can talk freely about their stuff they can talk about their headaches. was my. 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 down saying 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 they're. not rosie grew up in abject poverty. her family still can't afford a modern stove. candles animals 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 . you don't believe me my mother would cry my children would cry papa stay with us but i just got off drinking again this all is ok to my girl and i want to use. 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 biased 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 on. the field or moony of i a son there 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 e as a. 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. 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 that. i've also. oriel feels like he's found a family to have fun and i'm an orphan this is my family really i love it. 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. but i'm. sharing what i can do with others as what drives me. the most going to my village bands over music. and that really means a lot to me what i've. seen are studies music at a university a long way from home. she takes piano and saxophone classes. it's a demanding programme. 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 our money i assign are trained her well it's an excellent . she's an excellent student she was a 1st class we're doing everything in our power to make sure she can carry on. you see me here don't get me 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 the. 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 there performing in via the main square.

one that is so important it's a milestone for the confidence for all of you out of your. rosy 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 of everyone's. that's all from us the global 3000 this time we're back next week of course with

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