the illinois native is fluent in the ways of senegal but she keeps a low profile in the work of tostan. tostan's work often begins with an ice- breaker, like an old movie. many in the audience have never watched a film. to overcome the language barrier, the selection is a buster keaton silent movie classic from 1923, and it's a hit. a more serious film followed, on vegetable gardening. it's all part of seminars on nutrition, health, basic human rights, and other issues-in groups, songs, dances, and drama. >> she needs to be cut. all girls need that. >> reporter: it's proven to be one of the most promising attempts in history to wipe out what melching calls female genital cutting [fgc], a practice that dates back 2000 years. each year, the world health organization says up to 3 million girls in africa are subjected to genital mutilation, and up to 140 million women live with its consequences. >> you can't have a recognized marriage if she is not cut. >> reporter: that cut is a painful rite of passage for girls across a wide swath of predominantly islamic african and middle eastern count

patients like paul senegal. until two years ago, he had a job as dock worker and was in the best of health. but then his legs began to shake. a neurological disorder. >> dr. walkes, i used to at least stand on my legs. i can't even stand on my legs no more. >> you can't stand on your legs at all? >> no sir, i can't. >> clearly paul senegal is in bad shape. for the past two years, dr. walkes has tried in vain to convince specialists to at least look for the cause of paul's disorder. paul has come to the clinic on a lawn mower. his sister gave him $2 for gas. he has a car but the disease is gradually causing paul to go blind. he can hardly find the ignition. he carries all his important documents with him in a drinks holder. dr. walkes' team is helpless in the face of paul's worsening condition. specialists and private clinics often refuse to treat sick patients for the low standard fee. >> you know the public doesn't really realize that there's a working population that cannot get health care, that cannot really

. >> logan: they vanished decades ago from the deserts of egypt, senegal, chad-- all the places wherelked the earth more than two million years ago. >> bamberger: they wouldn't be here and alive if we hadn't taken some action 30 years ago. >> logan: in the late 1970s, bamberger offered to devote more than 600 acres of his property to save an endangered animal, at his own expense. american zoos sent him nearly all of the remaining known genetic stock of scimitar-horned oryx in the world, and from that, he raised hundreds of animals. he's since sent some to african reserves for eventual reintroduction into the wild, but he believes the best hope to sustain the species today lies on the texas range. >> bamberger: i've got ranchers that i started them out on with half a dozen animals that got 200 now. >> seale: but if you're a conservationist, and you've given up your land, you've given up thousands, millions of dollars to save this species. yet you're not against hunting them? >> bamberger: well, i wouldn't do it here. i'm not fond of it at all, but i'm wise enough, smart enough to know,

about sen ago, so i always learned a lot whenever he talks about home -- i do not know much about senegaland he is very interesting. and he came to paris a few years ago to study law. now he lives in monique's house and does the housework, but it does not feel like he is being taken advantage of. it is what he signed up for. in exchange for housekeeping, he lives rent-free under her roof, the seventh student to do so. the only downside is that her house is somewhat off the beaten track. it takes assan two hours to commute to law school. nearly 180,000 students a year come to paris to attend university. housing is scarce and expensive. those who cannot find a place to stay may end up here. this is a housing agency that serves as a go-between for multigenerational cohousing of arrangements. not all of the arrangements go as smoothly. serra also spent a year living with a retiree. she missed her privacy and found her elder the flat rate overbearing at times, but she also gained new appreciation for her own grandmother back in italy. >> i took my grandmother somewhat for granted, and i did no

gonzales, to compare and contrast, he stonewalled a congressional hearing -- i do not know if it is senegal converts. or he said "i don't know" the words to that effect. in eric holder's case he is answering all the questions they asked. he has been very forthright and effective as a prosecutor. he is going after the vote of repression laws. no question, republicans are trying to repress the latino and black and poor vote. host: indianapolis, connor, a republican. caller: good morning. i just wanted to share a few thoughts. the whole notion that republicans are trying to deny people their right to vote is just ludicrous. the voter i.d. law, we have seen time and time again -- both parties agree that it is necessary. >> watch all of today's "washington journal" any time at the c-span video library. on this green is former education secretary margaret spellings, part of a daylong discussion of the economy and the release of the chamber's third annual enterprising states studies, looking at different states. it is just getting underway. >> taylor and this -- expand on good ideas others are doi