that they are fighting for new guinea and which has no place for violence against women and girls ok jad is africa's regional goodwill ambassador for the united nations women and she's also the founder of safe hands for girls and she joins me now from the gambia jabs i guess so much for for talking to us today you have personally experienced female genital mutilation could you just talk to us about your experiences now and how it's impacted your life. i remember going g m p q that you knew already i went through you know goto mutilation when i was one so i don't remember what that was like to go through down cover but i will until this fact is as an adult and. i mean just speaking in general terms when it comes to carry. on a woman's body from physical consequences to psychological effects and this is something bad once you group through it is something that you have to live with for the rest of your life yet it's certainly something that you're having to live with for the rest of your life but a lot of women in countries where if chamas practiced are in support they've they are in favor

ordinary people to do anything about it all right and then jad able and the author of the book digital democracy and. thank you for your insights. ok so our next story is one about creating solutions it's tough for fishermen at lake victoria because stocks off wild fish are dwindling so many of them are turning to fish farming to make ends meet but breeding fish requires flushing farms with massive amounts of clean fresh water now a team of scientists from europe are working with communities in uganda in kenya and tanzania to get around that. mohammad has been fishing off they were going to shows of little more than twenty five years. we no longer catch fish like we used to. be economic impact on us out there right now you can see it traps and come up empty or just one cut away. in the old days we would get a good catch. the main cause for the depletion of stocks over fishing pollution from industrial activity is another problem these issues have made it harder to meet the rise in the mind for fish. this has prompted some ugandans to set up fish farms. one of the biggest challenges is the lack of clean fresh water. fish from outsid