section of a turbulent history ah, the cities, the mosaic of different people and languages. iran's mountains reveal unparalleled beauty as well. yeah. the scenery is magnificent particularly warm and our position is exceptionally a special look at a special country. iran from above. start september 16th on d, w. hello from now you robbie. my name is when to come while we're out from the 77 percent racial for you. africa young majority. it is always such a pleasure to have you be there this week. so will be focusing on parenthood and the unique set of challenges that young people are

facing as they try and raise the next generation. yes, more of what's coming up. in the sure. in the gambia, we meet a group of young people, determined to fight maternal mortality. we find out how long parental lead is across the continent. and in kenya, we hear how women are breaking motherhood. to retype that, i've held them back. i mean, we start off in the gambia, where like in many parts of the world, childbirth is teal killing women. however, a group of young public health students led by so now the boy want to put an end to this. they have found ways to protect. we men before, during and after childbirth, take a look at their story. but jermarta is pregnant and excited to meet her child, but she is nervous to maternal mortality in her country the gambia scarily. hi. see

that the beer is too much our community encountered some maternal mortality issues . sometimes the baby survives during childhood, but the mother doesn't do enough for me . one in every 200 women died during childbirth in the gambia, poor antenatal care delays in seeking medical attention and bad nutrition are blamed. luckily, young gambia are trying to fix the root causes of maternal mortality. when public health student son double lost a classmate during childbirth, she and her colleagues took action were decided to sell it back is because we realize that lots of teenagers are losing their life. why given back to young ones,

and i put my 1000 dash you thinking that maybe if i become pregnant, i can be the next victim. so before that happened, maybe i can play my for the enjoy to have them out. that bama care package educates expected mothers and family planning and nutrition. it started and so to conduct village in a region with the highest maternal mortality rate within the country. here 50 women are expecting a baby. but you know, the prenatal care routine, they should follow or the risks of small gaps between pregnancy. raising awareness is vital. one of the things we are doing is creating awareness in the form of sensitization. and one of them was based on min involvement in 4 different janet issues the. 2 was a compound to compound sensitization where we discourse this is of back to the badness and complication, readiness and awareness again on family plan. in rural areas,

most people like access to good food anemia is a frequent complication in pregnancy. to beat malnutrition at the package includes serial supplements for pregnant women and son as t and built a community garden to grow vegetables. they have also struck a deal with the local network provider every cell to build a communication system which allows expectant mothers to contact clinics if they experience problems and go for a checkup. we want to is a communication with the reader on the people that are part of the project understand who got and those things got as well. that they have any health condition then they've got and they will also call them but they haven't any since starting the bama care package here, 5 women have given birth to healthy babies without problem. so now enter team hope

that blueprint will be followed across the gambia and that women like tomato giving birth will no longer be a scary experience with the phone and you came in did being pregnant and giving bus should not be fatal in this day and age now moving on to another issue that affects the parents, especially mothers, after giving birth, post partum depression. what is it? and how can you deal with it? i was 77 percent 6 and relationship, but has been too high for her apiece to find out more. hello and welcome to the spread a safe space where we get to discuss everything, sex and relationship. many of you may have heard of the baby news. this is very common and effects up to 80 percent of new mother's symptoms can include mood, swings, or feeling overwhelmed. the baby boom can last for a few weeks after birth,

postpartum depression, on the other hand, can last for months and as a much more serious problem that shouldn't be ignored. if you have post partum, depression, you might experience one or more of the following symptom. you feel sad or cry a lot, even when you don't know why you're exhausted, but you can't sleep. you sleep too much. you don't know why you're irritable, anxious or have no energy. you feel disconnected from your baby. you feel guilty about these feeling? you have thoughts about harming yourself or your baby if you're a new mom and you're experiencing any of the symptom. i urge that you seek help from a medical professional. i put a few of your most pressing questions to dr. get to. here's what she had to say. post partum depression. i would say think of it as a shift in a woman's home as a result of childbirth. some of these homeless increasing drastically and some of them are dropping drastically. what that does is cause a disconnection between

a woman to herself and also disconnected from her child disconnected from how you know, context. treatment can vary depending on the help that is sought by the man. one intervention would be psychotherapy talk therapy. i call a just like with therapist, a counselor, some sort of mental health professional and other way to treated is medication antidepressants, for example. and this is important that you get this from a doctor, only your daughter can prescribe it because of the side effect on other treatment intervention could be homeowner treatments. so if some of your home ones are just too drastically different and have been tested and seem to be that way, then your doctor may prescribe the homeowner themselves in an attempt to balance your body. it's very difficult to advocate for yourself when you're going through postpartum depression. so my 1st and major recommendation is that a woman talks to the people she considers her in

a circle before delivery. and this must include your doctor. this is a person who is trained to notice symptom. why this is important is because they are able to know that today you look different than you did 2 weeks ago. another option is to just hop online, get online, look up postpartum depression. can you tell postpartum depression whatever country or city you're in? there are women. there have been where you are there women who are where you are today. so you're able to get support from a group perspective if you need help reach out. and if a loved one is struggling, the best thing you can do is offer your support and understanding. the more open we are about postpartum depression, the less stigma that will be and more mothers will get the help that they need from me kaz. goodbye. thank you. kaz, now let's head over to walker is state in there will be where we meet. i mean at the, sorry, taylor and film make us fuck became

a mother when she was barely into her twenty's. and she quickly realized them. so many stereotypes thrown towards women, but it wasn't until they so when she decided to challenge those stereotypes and in so doing, she has impacted the lives of over half a 1000000 women. take a look. she becoming a mother is a life event that he's mostly met with joy. but the transitioning to motherhood is marked by stereotypes that could weaken the result of any strong woman until they decide to challenge them. that is something that, amina josh from there will be kenya started to do. amena, those 2 world, us to retakes mothers fees, her transition to motherhood should have fast kind. so my transition into motherhood was being accepted into spaces where previously i wasn't when i became a mother, things change and i got kind of got that respect of ensuring that

a ok. now we can hear from her because she's become like a grown fat labels are what amena joshua is fighting motherhood in kenya as in many parts of africa, societies is seen as a duty at the expense of your personal needs. once a woman becomes a mother, so say to applies different phones on her. suddenly she is judged harshly when she does have too much fun or if she becomes a single mother or if she is queer in flux, a study in kenya's crystal region showed that 34 percent of the men believed that a woman will use as contraception is bound to be promiscuous. i mean there is no stranger to the effects of such stereotypes. i would say the biggest one is a pc auto miss in an o. p. c o to me is when the doctor cuts you are. so that to make way for the baby to come out, the baby was in big, i was $3.00. and i didn't, there was no need for him to to do that. but at the time i didn't know to question

why. when i asked him, he said, you know, so to some of the things that are done, and one of the things that amina has done since she healed, is to found the digital platform and mother ring the woman. it has evolved to hi, breed events where canyon women meet to talk about breaking the motherhood, stereotypes, i have been all of these mothers. i have been the divorced mother. i have been them not being able to breast feed mother. i have been, you know, have been putting on domestic violence mother, i have, you know, had my mother go to prison like what, who would you like to speak to your demographic demographic you'd be gently achieving is one of the women within the and mothering the woman movement, she had her 1st child at 35 and she too, has faced the retype that people hold interest leave, especially in the workplace. and that time i was to go to such a church that they were very strong in their faith and they would look at me like

whoa, do choose carrier in the slave over mother who, family life. she says being a part of the community has become so important because now she doesn't feel a loom in her struggle. women need such safe spaces once you take on this role of wife mother, you lose your individuality. so you're given that space to be an individual. yes, we know you have your child. we know you loved them, but you also have these feelings that you need to process mothers are expected to find their joy in their families and their children. so what happens when women like jacqueline and amena find the joy in other activities outside of motherhood? is guilt inevitable when mothers choose themselves? it's just younger i had to leave my child. oh for say, both selfish things you free like i probably am a bad mother. of course,

this guilt you, you have to remove yourself from the yoke of, of mum guilt i handed with jacqueline a ching is one among thousands of women, that amina has impacted on the facebook page and mother and women. and that is a simple my, they want to change how motherhood is seen from the cable to st and at like a minute and how group want to continue being multi faceted and not pinned to one to one version of how a mother should i mean that sasha, breaking motherhood, the stereotype now raising a child is not a supreme. it is a marathon. and many young parents do not know the legal framework that allows them to stay at home and raise the next generation. so what does the law say about that? not only that, how much time can my val stay at home of the child, but, and he'll, this is what our pin will section to day will be answered. as

a 1st time mom, i know how difficult it sees to return to work after maternity leave. niger, my tiny thing, the blow attempts to make it easier on new moms. the problem is it doesn't surprise everyone for women who walk into civil service. they are giving off the 4 months of paid maternity leave. father also not left out. they have 10 days of pay, rental leave within the 1st 2 months of the child's birth. but all of these protections only apply to people that work in the civil service. and most people, the niger we walk for private companies. so a huge percentage of the population is left out more sprayed maternity leave range from 12 weeks to 6 weeks with half a month. salary on no payments are toll statistics show that only one in 5 of all you must as return to food time work in the 1st 3 years. i saw maternity leave.

many young mothers have to find all tiny is like stuck in a small business just to help them balance caring for the 21 on bringing some income for the farm. and you're going to love gives my at least 3 months of maternity paid leave. because most you're going to walk in the informal sector. many do not have 4 more job contract. now, many mothers, a chance to get my benefits to most of them missing work for even a day. i mean, lots of income, some employer support my the out of empathy and not necessarily entitlement when it comes to man, the law give us at least 4 days. but until you've actually found the strange idea among many uganda men, beach employers or employees, i've spoken to some men who were not to buy that to apply for,

but i need to benefits at all. but on the other hand, most walking mother said that after giving but they need as much time from walk as possible. why this is idea why women, i believe to be more of a homeric i've caregivers, rather than korea billed us. well, the women still choose to be books. the label on stage one can go on maternity leave after 18 months of service. now this is for a 12 week period, 6 weeks before confinement. i'm 6 weeks after confinement, but for less than 18 months of service. one can go on maternity leave, but without pay. but now the women 20 change to place that every mother can go on maternity leave for a period of 6 months without any qualifying period. what that means is that one can take the maternity leave before they deliver or after their deliver and on full basis of retaining their salary, their promotion,

and every other benefit that comes with that. the issue of maternity leave is still an ongoing debate. this by the fact that the women's act of 2010 has made a progressive attempt by given women more weeks to spend time with their babies. so women as to saying that this is not enough. there would wish for more days, as there's no prayer design for parent to leave aside the 6 month period that's been designed for maternity leave. after exhaust in that 6 month period, one cannot extend. now that takes us to the conversation of women's agency and reproductive health rights as what walks all women a my very much be different from what walks home and b. i hope your country is one of the good examples of parental leave. now let's go back to kenya where we meet a young deaf couple who are raising children, who can hear and speak, but they communicate using sign language. how does the couple navigate life as differently abled parents?

roslyn oqueeno is a proud mother of 4. yet when they yell or shout, she never hears them. in fact, rosalind, he was nothing despite the noise in nairobi, rosalyn grew up in the deaf community in key soon which even has its own sign language dialect. she met her husband julius, adore at the messina school for the death, one of the few education centers available to can children with hearing difficulties. the couple married in 2004, rosalind is a professional tailor, while julius is a carpenter. but transitioning from the deaf community to ordinary society and i,

robi, was rocky, things didn't get easier when rosalind and julia started a family there for children whose ages range from 15 to 3 months can all here, despite myths about deafness being hereditary, they give them copious amounts of joy and even help.

the early stages of parenting were tough. not hearing her children cry when hungry for instance. but the couple managed, developing a special communication channel. now the battle to put their kids through school as job opportunities are scarce for deaf people in kenya, despite julius and rosalind qualifications. so they started a small grocery business move . according to the 2010 kenya disability survey, there were about 800000 deaf people in kenya. but the states still has not provided

structures or even policies to support people with hearing disabilities. meanwhile, rosalyn and julia stride on their own, in their quiet world ably bring up their children against the odds. ah, thank you. what's her up for that report? as the fact is, we can do a lot more to make sure that differently able people enjoy the same thing. now, if you can't get enough of all calls and make sure you check out our youtube channel for now, let's meet with edward from tons. the near the doctor and scientists always had a desire to travel the was and of the 5 years in sweden completing his ph. d. edward came back home to help found project in hire, a platform that teaches and mentors young people interested in the sciences. let's

take a look. my name is veronica edward, medical doctor and the patient scientist. and i'm the co founder of project inspire . and we aspire to be the 1st disneyland for science in africa. one in company embarrassed and actually, and we had a very beautiful growing environment with my siblings. when i finished my 1st degree in medicine, i was thinking, i need to get out of this country and get more exposure apart from just seeing the things in tv and but for scholarship. their entry from m d to go to college, seattle, selling diversity incident. so i spent 5 a year when i when they left the country, sweden, i was interested to see what life has to offer out there. and i had thoughts of thing. but before i left her,

it started project inspire. and that is one thing that's really, really it was driving me to come back and say, okay, i'm going outside to get as much as i can. so that when i come back, i'm useful as it can be. the question of the importance of science, technology, engineering, mathematics like stem in africa, context is that science technology engineering. math is the one that has progressed humanity so far and africa. the continent has a lot of opportunities to capture and leapfrog to success that other countries that i've been tarzan in born, raised and educated at least to my my 1st degree medicine and i've gone through public schools and going through private school. so i have a good taste of both worlds and being in a das per i opened up my mind in terms of, okay, it could be better and then became

a personal mission to give this experience that i didn't get growing up in america, did make situation to young people who need to have that. so to me, more personal one of the major things that i learned is i did not know much about myself and this experience of coming back change of them and in the work into has really taught me lecture about what i can do in project conspire. we have 3 main major programs. one is for kids who are coming up 3 years to 14 years. the 2nd main project is to package these experiences that kids have in projects in science, kids in the 3rd last project is with secondary school kids. and this is, when do it, boot camp every year and we throw them problems with the outbreak of color. how can

you use science, technology, and math to solve that in the practical knowledge, to make sure that what they learn mix my address to the desperate enough continents new were sweden, wherever. there is a lot of room for growth and relevance in our continent. and we are the only ones only to capture it, should she do it to come back and grow this content leapfrog, you know, congratulations edward for raising the next generation of african scientists. all good things come to an end, but don't worry. next week we'll be back with a brand new episode of the 77 percent. as always, you can reach us via social media, our drop us an e mail, and now it's time for some music on tweet. i hope you too will enjoy this. read it

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