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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. 'd 70 percent of all people living below the poverty line all 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 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 a committed and in any development into one woman dave only under the thumb of the average in anything and they live a simple fact you know for stability. these are 2 cs i has been called the gammy as queen of plastic recycling before you get firewood to be doing with our communities 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 no real poor people get out and get access to the chapel what would this one is the absence wherever you are in the country. if you don't have a i think these are true is the founder of the ngo women's initiative the gambia it's found a way to produce fuel brick cuts from the shells of peanuts or ground nuts for ok you can grow nuts or the gambians 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 over with so that allows us to pay the school fees and school in the chair. 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 this job to get at. them was able to look at who becomes that. one of africa's small most countries that gambia is drowning and garbage to stop them recent plastic or use it very difficult because to be in there you know kind of a development war everybody go to the supermarket and buy packaging things and we believe that it's a resource that we can use and then point it into something and for that one people . 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 c sized 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. around say zaya 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 better looking. 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 and. it was a good trip to the members 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 always say it. the idea one who. is about the situation that we're leaving and what feels us men leading is not a problem but women also today they have rights to eat because they are contributing. to the recycling center in the village of and you know where is that we see zajac comes from was the 1st in the gambia. she employed just 5 women to begin with they would collect and clean up all plastic bags and then believe 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. and. i will do them dog for 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 and want to clean them on economy how you can call me little that they have so when they receive them one 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 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 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 be firewood the women they want to do for us

i'm quite pleased for cooking and the eyes want to placement for this that it probably. that is why we. like. that. 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 and 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 make a change. 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 $75.00.

that's for you let everybody tried to make sure that whatever you. let it be. and it is helping decide. 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. 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. sometimes menstruation even threatens livelihoods and women turn to drastic measures to stop it. 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 they're 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. 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 didn't that. 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. we will go to that it's possible that some of them force the women into it i can't comment on that but even so i'm sure is 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. 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 that in use it at all

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 that has that it will be outputted as award. 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 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 parent there 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 life which is strange because as one of the most reckless pieces of our biology. the coolest map to help women facing understand what is going on in their body in contract when your parent is there you can track pains and know swings and sexual activity and many other things that are all scientifically related to the cycle and then when you get back is projections from can see what's coming up the next couple days you can start seeing correlations across the news cycles and that's

a lot of the financial education. i really miss that when we're making men well when they're biology they can have a stronger voice in the world and then 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 deep thinking in a sense that until women have control over their own bodies and their own childbearing can seem 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 use what they use as data is to do scientific work so we carefully selected research institutions we do science work and from our hearts with the aim to advance the knowledge around through our house

so that we can get this knowledge also back to the people who tracked the data. in knowledge you know self is of course my 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 america it's under research it's also under funded with a lot of work to be done to me have a world where people can talk freely about those thus 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 long enough to learn an instrument because making music jump 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 have nothing rosie grew up in abject poverty. her family still can't afford a modern stove. everybody is going to name all sister or not 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 . if you don't believe me my mother would cry my children would cry papa stay with us but i just go off drinking again this all is ok to my god 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 by us 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 on. the field are moony of by a 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 e azam. 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 be in charge it boosts their confidence for rosie the orchestra was a lifesaver. there's a bit of this elected and i'm so grateful to have discovered music it lifted me out of the misery and loneliness i felt this is music is my whole life now i mean. if. i have not 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. 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 a 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. it's a really good 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 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 as a special day for the young musicians they are performing in via the bit of those 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 off every once.

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