to get ready for an exciting auburn toyota full of surprises. i am shop now and i am ready to dive into the house of gentleman to us. you have you as a one does not do need the support of this card via included in the, on the vehicle despite this process and the, and expect the size of life enjoyed. this is the, the, the news africa with a special and of your addition on inspirational and trail blazing women. we introduced to you this year. there's the fashion design from kim, you who's read defining style in that row, these largest informal settlement a bricklayer in gun. it building a future for her family full while confronting gender norms. the camera, rooney and fox are fighting for her recognition close by blow the

and the world 1st female hot air balloon pilots taking to the skies. continue the stories of these and as an inspiration of women from all of africa, coming up the hello, i'm christine window and it is good to have your company. this is our last program for the year 2023 and birdie casing. it's the women who have made outstanding achievements despite the barriers they faced. we begin with the story, all falls. yeah, the book will. she is a fast and design of from kenya's law, just informal settlement opportunities are hard to come by when she is from. but as you are about to hear that has not got in the way of her pursuing surgery,

my mom was against it. she usually told me that freshman is no tech costeo was working for you. can you kind of be a designer? he can. yeah, because that doesn't take these so you know, she wanted me to do the thing. i wasn't into it. so i just told her a can't do nothing new when to do question. so she said if you wanted to flush him, then you have to look for you the to go to college and pay for your on fee. so that's what i did most to you and you come for this to them. you don't get cheese. so many opportunities that add as a get so like you get goes after high school, they don't know what to do with their lives. they just t, i roaming around, but instead of from being the kind of have this platform where they get to create

something, a hi, so like man, uh, part of us we main fielding to elwoods. they. so they, these will make them look sexy or nice because they will be judged by the one to make women feel comfortable in what they, when they shouldn't feel what they were for as long as they are comfortable leaving the very best. so maybe special thing about the flesh should make the for me, i've gotten the chance to meet to that, but the dizziness and they're telling me to push myself to walk, hide. it also is a community thing. so it's helping so many people. creating jobs for people like

us, you know, the it is now that is something that's helping me pay for things. how's my mom the going to set my own business may function business. i don't have so many employees to ask for me the see myself as an upcoming young. he's a man who will be an inspiration for us to have a the

main thing was to and what away also to change the narrative about a pace like keep there. next we go to to molly in northern gonna where we met. i shall buy is a hawk. the job she chose to do is considered a man's job. and despite all the criticism, she stuck it out and it's paying off brick by brick chaise to came in to lead the foundations for her future. a lone woman briefly in the midst of a team of men. she's built in the war for the clients. she purposely chose briefly and isaac, how are you? i decided 6 was my way, which is different from this new way. that's why i choose big city and a stylish breaking into building hasn't been easy. human berkeley is a close to 0 percent in open gonna if you have family and friends with last time,

hey joel. and the low cost here and my reach us, we talk, she gets the motion not nearly to float because of this work. for now i have to and i got a flush for them. i paid yes, goofy number one you flo, waiting. i was able to feed them in a patriarchal society, my gamma agent is fighting in literally fight. the idea of women being confined to the kitchen in child bedroom. the reason is these emails communicate to one is don't i shift hurry, debris cleaning business? is it true blazing? april, seen and won't get like this. in gauging the as self in baseball selection, which is very motivated and it's, it's, they felt about this so many goals,

events themselves or been assessing to disclose such as is that able to keep and load and improve the lives. and despite the challenges she faces becoming a bricklayer as proving to be life changing flight shock. because of this week, i'm able to save money and able to buy flow to myself, and i'm planning the future. i'm planning to build a house and it's one day i've gone. so a story. i shall, once he's probably a day young women so that you can start building your own stories. and one living building a story of her own is cindy in town. but she's a box of from west africa who competes with it. this is european games in poland as part of the received g team. but as you're about to see for yourself, she has a fighting spurious and the obstacles that she's faced outside of the ring. only motivator wins right grey, so bringing cindy him down,

but closer to her dreams she was pos of the 1st step of rescue g team at the repeating games. the late to step towards her ultimate goal is to let victory be being able to tell you the number one stage and then going, looking on the head more. and when watching it, it's only as a refugee back to the, you know, someone that, that's the apple, the why key? cindy grew up and kinda ruined, but move to the united kingdom, aged 11, supported by g bulk saying she's progressed through the sports ranks, winning major international competitions. now, $24.00, cindy would be a middle content of great britain at the olympics, but she needs citizenship fast. it's a long and arduous process, and she, things, politicians can do more for athletes like her. the only 4 in boxing annual, this poll. i think

a lot of will continue to need to be mean to people, to ask you to present albany around the world and you know, and it's been a more a to many ext choose. i mean, well, i think i a yeah, i some eyes i need some are the clothes in the academic. i see it's moving about the metal space. cindy, can see it is the u. k. her home, now i 6, you are a to, you mean she wouldn't be welcome back and kinda read it to me to begin my country. if i will send out, okay, you can get be in, i can get him squeeze in all the trouble. even if i do go there and, and i'm fine days i can get in trouble keeps sending me wrong just because i'm trying to i'm that gives perspective when she's in the ring. cindy said she likes to smile her way up to something opponents. i please, i smile if people think i'm crazy. i smoke because i'm thinking about body's waking

up. now my body's is ready now my body is telling me that i can see, oh see, i'm ready now. ready for more success? and if that follows, the smile will surely get even bigger. you're watching the news africa with a special india program on rank remarkable women whose stories we've brought you in 2023 still to come. nigeria is junior chest champion. she's satisfied on competing at the top of the game. 20 lancaster, that i did a big round last that also coming up the nigerian ship, who sits a new world wrinkled. put 1st to a group of women from cameron who initiated a platform that is promoting dialogue for peace and reconciliation in the country.

the 1st national women's convention for peace and cameron is an alliance with a team member organizations that represent the 10 regions of camera room. they were awarded the $20.00 to $23.00 german africa price. now selling bullying is the found and the executive director of one of the alliance is organization is it is called common action for gender development. they work focuses on women and goals, rise to reproductive health. and belinda, which is in the english speaking pause of cameron. we separatists are fighting to create a state of their own and this has resulted in yes of conflicts about semi joined me in the studio. we should begin by telling me about the challenges women are facing in her home city. i'm into as with the coming of current conflicts and demand. uh, we may have lost the size of livelihoods. they have gains new responsibility added button of k given. and they are also at the middle of the conflicts because the

a being harassed 6 really more listed because out of the dynamics of the call figures of talking we meant to show. so pre missing. so this we've made a half now had multiple rules to carry out and cp kindly we meant in this room in the community, women who do assisted funding for a living or feature trading to be able to feed their families with this new them. then i mix this with me and i'm not able to find themselves coupled with a watch condition or structures or we, we may be a student in leadership. and can you tell us about how through your foundation you're helping to address these challenges? um, come on actual for doing that, they put them in the lease, in the professional women, i need the lease and giving them access by respecting the sexuality and data for those who feels like it's so we've all of these we are struggling to bring together this we meant to have like support system to discuss with each other. okay. and

what is happening within the community? we try to push this, we meant to bring the voices into spaces where discussions i mean to kansas. we try to support them to discuss about this extra opened up to fails because we realize this is a pool issue that they need to be addressing if they have to actually in their fruitful state. and shall we have these community outreach, is where we work in communities. we have community mobilization to respond to govern us issues that are taking place within the community. because we believe that there is a life post conflict. and if we don't suck, preventing women and girls to not look as yes actually to us, so thing to exclude them. but something to include that with some uniqueness. and the whole conversation just i've, i've read a little bit about the list that you're doing and it's really, it's inspirational stuff. and i wonder as you sit here today as a community, the,

when you look back at all the work that you're doing back, what are your, what is one of your highlights? the highlight is like changing the ritzy, where i bought young girls to be able to talk to municipal authorities at the level of the local council, telling them exactly how the one health services to be given to the expiration. the family planning units on the use of contract section we didn't, my country was very happy because that moment i could meet those gills to be able to, if i've written those services by themselves, making decisions interact with those who are running those services and came up with a policy brief, i felt like, okay, this is it, this is how people can take that list in the, into the a hands on this cause the things that cause sensitive, which is something we can use for any of that they might see and tell you before you go, we had a few moments and i wondered if you could just share with our audience today what this award means to you and for the hundreds of women that you are representing and

receiving this award human opinion. women's work is usually some difficult work because of the point of mix around what it is. the recognition like this that i want the cervical mission is to validation of the efforts of communion women who have been responding to the multiple crisis of our community. so it means a lot of nice more work, because if we have the risk of mice with this, i would we need to move and continue serving alcohol minutes is selling boom in, congratulations to you and all the women with one disorder. thank you so much for being on to the news. thank you very much. i'll make story takes us back to gonna weigh close to communities, depend on what are bodies for their livelihoods, but these vital resources are rapidly losing their beauty and purity due to constant pollution. so to draw attention to the problem, is it to an environmental activist swim 450 kilometers in gun is lake volta. that's

the world's largest man, made lake. she's quoting on board, teased urgency. preserve for to bodies for tina, sustainable future activities. findings up right away, yvette step day. it's passionate about guidance, environment. prove of that effect swimming through gun and slick volta for more than 40 days, covering a viral root of 450 kilometers. this leak, the world's largest at the fisher was of why it's one of the few what a waste in ghana still cleaning now for head to streaming is so encouraging and so amazing to be able to swim on the boat to river like this. and i'd love to see other water bodies and so on. and specifically across the, the swimming the again took. this expedition was to draw attention to the pollution of goodness, what the bodies, some of which come from 2nd hand clothing waste 15 mediums that can hunt through

the items point again every week over for skip of st. ends up in west heaps. like here in the clear, like going in a crash that is competing against environmental pollution, was organized by there or foundation scientists, isabella brew. it's part of the team. harold was to take what samples at various points for testing. in this tulip, poet bowed. she analyzed the what the samples for several elements in this smaller borrower tree. it depends on the places where we uh, if we are close to villages, for example, we will be collecting some samples for back to a larger context. if we are close to factories or industrial areas, we will be checking for heavy metals. for example, diagnosed with a bodies continue to be heavily polluted,

largely from mining activities manages of the what the resources see. many of them are in critical condition. jacqueline st. about the diverse stating impact that a wants to continue to raise public awareness. and hope is that the gun is what the ways one d, the free of all pollution. not just the rich words cost of good in and out. so the game of strategy that's played by millions uh around the world we course have with one young chest in nigeria, it will re to who is sharing her passion for the game to inspire others in her community to play meets it will be a to the next queen of a chest swelled. she started playing when she was just now she's been scratching up the ranks. the 8 year old is a junior chest chunk here and then pass it up for the game of kings. it

helps you to advert tax. it helps you to stay busy, kindly, itself, shoot your country in motion. it helps you to have a plan in the. it helps you not to me to conference people. when schools is spends has a bad time practicing have moves in the game. she loves competing against other alternatives, is a challenge she enjoys. i feel good by my teacher. if i use the game, as i'm saying, i say taking i o active sites in for the games over and get the tray. steve's says that she discovered the game by watching her father play. having inspiration was the knights, the only finger that can jump over all the others. clemens, how father supports, how passion, but says is school about the balance of the flies right around. one

isn't with the time single. she has, she is trying to ship shipping. it's, you know, around or any way i know it's, uh, weddle for like 25 that i say just, it's useful for you on that as well for chance. it's something that i think is just not job for her. so to find me was she treat as a beginning? it moves says request on it doesn't, it is convinced that choice can make the world a better place. and the ones to inspire about children to take up the sports team there. i feel that kind of assume that this was the 1st time of pages. studies suggest that playing. chase helps with cognitive developments and improves problem solving skills. early stuff means she's just if you move away from her dream,

i guess on to line child so that i did just the ground last that i'm reaching people in the future, i'll say converting them. so we do in the play with me or i like one of them and i found because chance anybody, county now this yeah. and i jerry and shift birth beginnings, wold re quote for the longest cooking session. 27 year old hilda bessie spend 100 hours making meals in lagos. now she was made at the throne by a japanese ship, whose crickets on was 24 hours longer. but nonetheless, hilda sidney. in spite of many nigerians with her attempt this is the moment of truth to shift hilda by the end of a mammoth food, a cooking session, thousands turned out to exit own and celebrate his success.

the spent 100 hours preparing food to try to break the world record by january and i'm very happy and i'm very proud. very unexpected. so that, that she made more than 100 dishes for the international on my jerry and i was to raise a profile as a shift. but she also has all the goals i have think i dreamed for my business and for my brand. and generally, just for my me, so just coming from a very, very, very modest background. i just knew that, okay, i need to do something that is basically out of the navy. so call my cellphone to my support nigeria on the map to put your africa women on the map

as well as enjoying the policy via the support is we're able to sample the food, fussy, made for free, or boosting the feel good fact to the event that everyone will be talking about be nigeria and for a very, very long time. i feel very proud in my notes and it's, it's a pleasure to be absolute and that's the whole thing. whatever comes next to shift passing, she's already hit on a recipe for success. that special needs take to the skies in kenya. now we, we met joyce back with the world's 1st black female hot air balloon pilot. the trail place has been taken to us on safari with a unique perspective of the treasured messiah mar wildlife. was this the messiah model, but in a spectacle, from above, one of africa, most famous,

national parks for captain joyce beckwith. it's just another day in her office in the sky and she became the world's 1st licensed black female hot air balloon pilot in 2019 cliques. called hook up and smiles. i knew that i was going to be like at the fast canyon. pilots of fever, the pilots to get the balloon. but i did not realize that i was actually going to be the 1st black woman in the world to do this. captain smiles thornton license at a special flying school in the united states. since then, she spends most of her mornings showing people the hot stopping magic of sun rise above the monthly motto. the ride costs full $100.00 per person. a luxury only few can afford like canyon stand up. comedian eunice funds, you take the money to. she gets to the right to herself on

a boat. the eye flew with the captain spice. and let me tell you, she's amazing. she's excellent as what she does flying and telling you the at the most of the same time. that's amazing. she knows them from a fire. captain smiled has already logged 200 hours of flying, but more importantly, she has broken through a bluff feeling for women in aviation. when i am flying, i can only describe it as freedom. i can describe beats as, um gosh, it's, it is just have to fly. you don't have to comply with me to, to, to know what i'm talking about, and many hope to with, can you very own trailblazer and that's it for this special edition of the to be news africa. i wish you a safe, healthy and happy new yet. see you in 2024 by the

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