helps to provide therapy for victims the now north of the and not alone and despite the wrists mariam a white suit says she won't be abandoning her company anytime soon. i'm joined now by a clear hashim who is one of the co-founders of the movement in nigeria welcome to . africa how widespread would you say sexual violence is in northern nigeria. thank you for having me well it would be hard to put an exact number on the statistics because of the crew vallance of silence when it comes to sexual violence in northern nigeria but based on research done in two thousand and sixteen to seventeen a police unit commander mentioned that one only one out of seven cases are often reported and in those cases that were reported at that time you know about eight hundred rape cases and it is five percent of them where. rape incidents with kids with kids under the age of fourteen fret for and we know that you know stigma is one of the main reasons why a lot of people don't speak out about sexual violence in in your society but i wonder that when somebody does decide to do so i view all for it is helpful in m