not an option. i'm on and are stuck in the spanish border area. other young people there waiting for a chance that will probably never come. shattered dreams starts january 18th on t.w. . welcome to global 3 thousands. take a listen to this sounds like these are inspiring young mexicans we 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 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 have 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 as woman in a body of committed a committed and in any development into was. really under the thumb of gavel in anything and they never thought about it when 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 did not accommodate if you have to walk maybe one i may have to get 2 kilometers before you get to be for us to have maybe 10 stick that you can use for one meal you know it's to close off your time the real poor people get out

and get access to the trap of what with this one is easy access wherever you are in the country. if you don't have a ok these are true is the founder of the ngo women's initiative the gambia it's found a way to produce fuel per cuts from the shells of peanuts or ground nuts. out there that 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 they're crushed then slowly burnt. who knows it then what. we're here for our families we come every morning to this place to earn as much as we can for them it was a good allows us to pay the school fees and school materials like 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. liggett

a group that was able to look at me with them is that. one of africa's small most countries the gambia is drowning and garbage to stop them using 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 and then we believe that it's a resource that we can use i'm going point it into something and for that one people ask for scraps on why do you come with this and how do you do it is just about trying when people thinking about problems when you think you've got brains behind you think about them. at a 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. from around say as 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 gaming 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 than to get. 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 demand of the community and i never blamed them for that because that's the mission and that's the question that we're leaving in what i always said culture is also the idea one who. is about as to the reason that

we're leaving and what feels a man leading is not a problem but women also today they have a right to eat because they are contributing. member 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 all plastic bags and then leave 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've been doing 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 we want to clean them on economic how little that they have so one is from the seal of deposit if you just $100.00 you have to sit back and tell us how much money do you want to whatever happens you have to put some money into here because we are planning for tomorrow. 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 area. we have to fire would the woman be able to do for us i'm quite pleased for cooking i'm not a placement. problem but. that is why we thrive. that we. like

. and if we. can use at 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 the women are growing mango and coconut trees the saplings are 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 $75.00. at the beginning. that's for you 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 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 harf 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. qur'an 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 be 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 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 landowners 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 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. 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. 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 you don't get. a few kilometers away in the

nearest town we're 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 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 is possible that some of them forced the women into it i can't comment on that but even so i'm sure is only a few. and i thought about it at the layout i did that. 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. 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 passes out 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

213000 cases and now supposedly it's just 1300 that has. bit as a woody. khurana doesn't expect the state to do anything about her plight she hopes that when your 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 learn how in our impact series we meet entrepreneurs human rights activists and bloggers fighting injustice and to being loose in their societies. people making an impact people making a difference.

but no parents will be no humans on the planet why is this. 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 and there to help them in facing understand what is going on in their body you can track when your period is there you can track pains and know swings and sexual activity many other things that are all scientifically related to the cycle and then when you get back inspection and can see what's coming up the next couple of days you can start seeing incarnations across in cycles and that's a lot of the financial education. really this that

when women king men 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 infant 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 the good developmental cycles i would win this from the world. one thing that we are proud to do with the news 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 a hole so that we can get this knowledge also back to the people who tracked the data. in knowledge in itself is of course not gender you know a car is

a car space weapon is the space rocket but 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 a mouth that's under research that's also under funded that's 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. was my 1st. 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 necks to learn an instrument because making music jump 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. 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 nothing rosie grew up in abject poverty. her family still can't afford a modern stove. anymore they were 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 . the jungle in me my mother would cry my children would cry proper stay with us but i just got off drinking again that'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 by 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 fit our money our values 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 there is a 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 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. if. any of you. i thought oh sorry oh 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 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 mean. look at his name sharing what i can do with others is what drives me. you must be my village patterns 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. if someone asked me if i wanted a different life i would say no i'm proud of who i am 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. 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 everyone else. i was. that's all from us the global 3000 this time we're back next week of course with more stories from around the planet in the meantime

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the scene of a new design from berlin criticized across the world for stoking the storming of the capitol building u.s. president donald trump now. condemns the rioters to those who are engaged in the acts of violence and destruction you do not represent your country but that's too little too late for democrats they want the president out now before and on curation day also coming up. new milestone for germany the country records its highest coronavirus death toll.