The big necklaces are intricate and colorful theyre a traditional cause of the culture of kenya some people. But the beads bring pain and suffering so many girls. Will madonna shes sweet serious if me for himself im not huge. And if you have. A good deathbed. You do need to call them good and i was to the top of them and i didnt even have breasts in them and when i mean its all money ive always said im safe paid below that low. Income families look. Good. In this remote region in northern kenya joe. The finkle layer fights for the ranks of beach girls. Today shes come to a village where many girls wear the necklaces and the activist wants to help them get the beads a gift through more young some blue worriers who were then permitted to have sex with the girls whenever they want beating is just one traditional practice here thats harmful to women and girls. At this point anyone moved. In there is. Joseph include layer has set up a foundation to protect girls against the practices of beating female genital mutilation only s f g m and Child Marriage but how easy is it to combat tradition. Together with a Government Official joseph in trying to convince fathers to send their daughters to school instead of marrying them off. According to some buru custom women have little say in their lives illiteracy among some people is around eighty percent. Of the girls josephine is hoping to take away today would like to learn to read and write them a lesson. So i dont in the words to go through it. All went to school and what makes the difference was a good economic and one to choose one where you can make images its much nicer. That. Josephine tries to convince the men but they see no reason to change their centuries old Practices School they say is unnecessary. The girls are not allowed to leave the village. December. People are herders in the expanses of northern kenya. Has learned is to take care of her familys animals. Shes fourteen years old. When she was a small child she was beaded and reserved by a moron. For years he has had sex with her in this special hot. At the beginning it was terrible. I was so young and i had to be intimate with someone i didnt want to but thats how it was im the one to me the drug use among. Her youngest sister goes to school. Now during School Vacation shes helping out at home today its her turn to take the goats out to graze for the day. I read she is having breakfast with her mother. The moron who beat a terrorist currently off with his cattle are eating hasnt seen him for a while. And. Soon shes due to be married to a different man the morons never marry their big girls. Together with her mother the fourteen year old is crafting her wedding jewelry. Shop. On the big necklaces can weigh up to several kilos. And. He used to bring more beads every time not anymore. Not enough i have enough i dont mind that the beads are heavy of. Wood i do everything with them only take them off to sleep on their. And there would have been the wedding adornments are almost ready now the some who are waiting for rain because thats when they hold their festivities. One of the first girls josephine cool a i was able to rescue was rosie it was just nine at the time. The weeks passed him and. Me father gave me two hours he said it isnt that if you are many here theres no need of staying theres no need thats going to school if you need you now you are now yeah you are maniacs youre supposed to get my age not even know they mean more money i guess i guess enough. Maybe a window money i will say it. In a way was lucky one day her husbands family sent her to the market there by chance she met josephine cool a are. Now rosie. Is fourteen years old she attends a boarding school and spends the vacations in a shelter run by joseph eames organization the some Girls Foundation. Rosellas father was sentenced to a year in prison the husband disappeared rosie left and the other young women cant leave the shelter because theyre in danger of being married off marriage is profitable for the womans family who receive seven cows as dowry for brides. They know that. The students are getting extra tuition jaring vacation they have catching up to do because they started school so late at nine rozier didnt even know how to hold a pen now shes the best in the class. As separate of that i guess so far that didnt suggest i have never been. An end of the class and suffered that yes theyd like these that side of me and even its not outright i didnt throw out to speak well guess early mother bent at the f. B. I. s ten. Sec a month. She showed me how to say it and he started doing this email provides. All the young women here have had experiences similar literary scene as sexual abuse genital mutilation many a traumatized sooner when now youll learn sometime soon you feel sometimes you can both be up and be making. You feel yellow yet in my distinct sound when you feel it in news come to that i just go for my last friend and shelly passed and we left and the interest in them i feel has been so thats why i think for a im like them all the despite their limited resources Staff Members at the some barrow Girls Foundation do their best to help boost the girls selfconfidence using role play for example. Who. Care rosina is safe and can sometimes remember what its like to be a carefree. Was. Was. Never good my reach he hasnt heard about the shelter for girls like herself she and her friends only know their traditional life. Had a problem with hammer they remember when im with my mommy all the stories about. Deadly boring but. There is much more interesting. And i know my believes i like to go to festivals and i like taken care of animals. My grandmother. In any case she says its too late for her to start school every ts mother sees the advantages of both ways of life. The world is changing. Personally i prefer riccis way of life. But i think young women whove gone to school can get further in life. Thats my girlfriends daughters have even built her a modern house now mind you though the none of them are yet we have under the floor. And what does she say about female circumcision that in your television report. But its part of our life my. Lover though there is a disgrace for a girl not to be circumcised. It was im looking forward to it. One day. Josephine says that helping individual girls isnt enough the traditions themselves must change thats why shes called this meeting both men and women are here many people are not aware that kenyan law forbids their traditional practices a lawyer informs them that female genital mutilation sex with minors and marriage under eighteen a forbidden in kenya thats new to many in the audience. Actually most of them dont even understand. That they voted for it but they do know what it was now its in place they dont know what is in the constitution so i know one of the lessons today was like do you understand what the incision thing i. Did that the constitution. Should be changed this older man complains he says only a circumcised woman is a real woman with a man around his side the women oppose him. Yes indeed if you think that weve suffered long enough one woman says circumcision is bad for all girls it has to stop. The woman and. I know that they only feel because it gets to that otherwise they keep doing it. If those over could bring it to him so that i left yes but. For me im trying to create. A few waves and well get to part you still with us so its a respects culture at the same time if it is stopping the home for the culture. Thats not as easy as it sounds. These two sambhu morons jeffrey de lay sit in my own letter rory has recently reached marriageable age guru men may only marry after theyve taken part in a ceremony that makes them young elders most of them are over thirty at that point. The two friends have come to the market to buy snuff. But only when its a stimulant we always have it with us to seduce girls we meet along the way. For our own girls. Theyre also picking out a goat for a ceremony in the evening. To you that we did was the one where there were bell says no to the animal together with their male friends. Over again. When the rains come to somebody who prepare for their big celebrations including weddings. Soon theyll be plenty of food for both animals and people. That. He doesnt. Know close with joseph and her coworkers travel tirelessly to reach and educate women always with the goal of protecting young girls from genital mutilation and sexual abuse. Community nine years with two or more different some good attorneys and one of the moment today theyre again accompanied by the lawyer who informs the women that the kenyan constitution bans sex with minors and female genital mutilation including aiding the practice. We do is going or that all the women here have experienced f. P. M. And they know who practices it and where. Large theyre worried the lawyer jokes were not going to arrest you will now. I think im ok with patients and human josephine stops with the fundamentals she shows diagrams of the female and male genitals and again and again she tells the women that they have rights. For. Procreation liesel. In the menu and its never in the. If they can just have sex but mostly women he. Was made up. And then she explains what genital mutilation. To the female sex organs how it can cause complications during childbirth one what happens when the vagina is sewn up. Some of these women may be understanding for the first time what has been done to them was. We leave the some guru area and head west to the city of eldoret. In the garden of a hospital we meet women who have suffered terrible problems related to f. G. Am. One of them is chatelaine gays also a sombrero woman. But ill call you i was for still a problem when my first child was born my husband threw me out after nash and i went back to my parents. But my mother washed me supported me fed me she did everything from me today you see them all i could do was lie there back up and people didnt know if i was dead or alive. And how much a man could do one poignant can make it to the. Back at all sometimes i couldnt even recognize my parents when. I was half dead but god decided that i should live the same i mean me see. The other women here have similar stories fistulas often occur during childbirth the womans birth canal tazz and she can no longer control her urine all still. Seen it was you cant hide a fistula people say or what smells here you know if youre travelling on a pass your urine flows constantly and i come by the people around you ask who peed here or what smells like a toilet. Though you know on a some. Straw into yourself and you know that youre all alone with the problem you know when you do from a new tissue then yeah. Ten surgeries later chatter has been healed she was just twelve years old when she lost her first child during birth and became sick. Now shes in her early twentys. People are gynecologist hilary helps the women free of charge most of them dont have the means to pay for the surgery to treat their fistulas often the women have psychological scars because theyve been stigmatized by their community or abused. Its. Actually that shows probably. The polish though it does. Sound even the local community does that can help us judy preventable these are the to all young gotten women have actually see if you have to be attended and and of course you must have trauma to them. What you know but what i am going to i think a worker at the hospital holds regular therapy sessions with the women many of them have suffered the affects of genital mutilation for nearly all their lives. The women come from many different ethnic groups some guru people are not the only ones who practice f g m. M i was held in. The hospital has a shelter for patients who have come from far away and cant go home between operations here they get training as seamstresses. Cheshire hopes to build up a livelihood without her husband. Who can abandon him and because you know i would like to continue with this work and if i can earn enough money i can send my son to school submission. And i hope my child will get a good education. So you can do one msec. After church had healed somewhat her husband got her pregnant again her son was born by says area and section in eldoret today shes going home for her first visit in a long time she wants to take her son to live with her. Before long i can hardly wait to see him again. As fast as the rain has come soon trickled away every t. And her friend are out looking for water like nearly every day. So when he will hopefully not suffer the same problem as chad. But in all likelihood she will be subjected to f g m and give birth when still a child. On the way its rich she says her only wish is to have a husband whos not too old. For half days journey away in the some bureaucrat lands jeffrey and meyer glad its. Evening as around thirty theyre still young men by sembler standards but old compared to a fourteen year old married women take care of the home and the children but big girls are not supposed to get pregnant. You give women room gave it happens we have to pay our cow as a punishment in the movie and then i always tell the girls they have to keep track of their menstrual cycle and were going to go out and i want to get into another movie needed when i want to. If an unmarried beat girl does become pregnant she has to get an abortion thats also the custom. Later the morons meet up with the girls of the village at the fire they saying about the life of the some people and the season not about love. To. Hate the way sure ive never had a political i wanted to marry my clan there wasnt a suitable girl. Im basically in favor of this custom now i want to get married as soon as i can. Get. His male relatives will seek out a suitable woman for him that she will have undergone f. P. M. Goes without saying. This small town of older nero is a days travel away josephine who is visiting the Police Station to publicize the work of the somebody who goes foundation. You. Know. Im very important to mr because Police Officers come from other regions in kenya its difficult for outsiders to gain access to the somebody community usually they find out too late that a girl has been subjected to f. D. M. And married off josephine doesnt spare them the details the men are shocked to hear that so many women undergo these rituals. Credible says one man that they knew to lay their women so they dont have affairs while they themselves go to the market to be with a prostitute. Im no feminist he says but thats not right. Going to despite the laws in kenya the police have so far been powerless to stop the practices. And that is why. They stay away from. The drugs they stay inside theyre. Instructed. You know. So. That. It may be a difficult task but for joseph include every small step counts. Down. At the end of the day josephine has a special visit ahead of her two orphaned girls who sought refuge in a shelter a seeing their grandmother for the first time in two years the. Older woman is moved to tears. Or your. Granddaughters will be staying with her for two weeks. The other way the letter was not about you oh oh. Oh oh oh yes. Oh wow wow not. Since the girls left her life has changed the grandmother says shes poor often she doesnt have enough food for herself and the other grandchildren in her care so the sack of food the sample room Girls Foundation has brought along is very welcome. Now we want us out of my community. Know what i am and my house is leaking. Life is hard for me. My big granddaughter used to help me make and sell charcoal that i cant manage it on my own im too old and so i have to beg for food what i mean good. Still she says shes grateful for the opportunities her granddaughters have received josephine asks the girls how it feels to be back in their old home and these are their grandmother threatens to marry them off on the spot if they dont give the right answer. Its nice to see my grandmother again she used to. But i want to continue going to school and getting good grades in later id like to be an air hostess the queen was pissed. And then off the grandmother is happy but these kinds of family meetings are always a balancing act for joseph. Some days you take them away and they have while theyre gone for school and sleep well. Its been doing. Now have to go back to where they came from but you do this to remind them where they came from and so they dont forget their background so that. They have to make. One of their number one. And then suddenly a beaded girl approaches in the dark josephine and her coworkers offer to take her with them rescue her but she doesnt want to. In the north of some guru counting is the village of two. Church i got a nasty surprise when she arrived at her home her husband had taken their son far away to the mountains the grandparents church as parents who had been caring for the boy were powerless to stop him. As long as youre trying to force me to return to him but i dont want to when i had to endure was enough. The young mother just wants to have her child and sent him to school just father tries to arrange a meeting with the husband and his parents they agreed to come. If tranches father could repay the dowry he received from the husbands family the problem would be solved. I look at me and at the beginning when i was with my daughter in the hospital or my cattle were stolen. I didnt care my child was more important to me but if i still had the coward i would have been able to free transfer from this marriage a long time ago. I mean them are. You know according to some guru custom a young woman becomes the property of her husband when she marries his family must pay a dowry of seven cows. And her father have brought a few more men along to discuss what will happen to her son. The husband has at least appeared at the meeting that i am and i feel. I. Can. Ignore each other even under normal circumstances they wouldnt speak to each other in front of the elders there were also knows shes not permitted to go to her son. Morgan out of the customary greetings they turn to the issue at hand can the boy move to the city with his mother and go to school that. The. Real. Problem with the order of the elders pressured the husband to give his permission the agreement theyve arrived at is that chacha can take her son in a few weeks. Until then hill stay with his father and his two other wives. But it was. I determined that the church is relieved and her son is happy that hell be going to school and im not. Going to remove. Some Blue National reserve is a tourist attraction in the region. The rangers who guard the park are some blue men and women. You know. Its one of them. Would only need to hear. To be a soda its unusual because father supposed to be a ho so if you have to get married and be in your home no teen in the other place so its unusual that they dont like but for my kids hes different because im now at a. Mom not my kid so its. Her daily duties include checking that all is in order in the park and that the animals are doing well. The rangers also have to ensure that the parkland is not misused for grazing during the dry season some guru herders increasingly come with their animals looking for food and water. Thank god. For us thats the life she fled from the traditional life of some guru women. Going. Off. To groom but they are already there so they cant. So he does have them to live like that but. Trying to kill day they are getting. Here that for them we often i think. As a ranger units also takes tourists around some Blue National reserve today shes showing us some of its loveliest corners. On the pulse of what she knew early on that she never wanted to be a beach girl. Never played in the lake because your baby insists like it did they beat me being a good lady and it was desperate but it does look they say if no play king believe me. He is. Still dead so it just grew. Yeah. It didnt but they thing we wound up going to be. Anti mother supported eunice believes her male coworkers accept her and the other women. Ten years to come and things will never change. The men will be going to school and no more bidding no more circumcision. I know my. Family was. Going to be necklaces are an inseparable part of some blue tradition chuch also wore them for many years but now she doesnt want them anymore. In many villages women make the necklaces and sell the colorful jewelry. In churches home village many young girls wear the typical red necklaces that bind them to a moron and that usually mean that they dont go to school. I mean why do you wear be. So i can sing and dance for the mans. Then why do you sing for them. Because of the custom. That i want. To go to school. Well now i am going the wrong camp would you like to go to school or would you rather be at home. Id like to be married. To my family can get some account of a dowry. Was on the wedding day the ritual of female genital mutilation will take place in the world that my god the way i like that. Around the world around. You in a circle we will know when to call me other girl supporter and reason with you they say dont scream just try to bear the pain it hurts but itll soon be over and you can do make it to as an equal and i felt a great bitterness so. I thought this man is the reason why ive been mutilated at such a young age and if he hadnt been there and if i had been older. Much of been able to defend myself. Now i know more about the wounds and how many girls are not mutilated. Like. That wells is what josephine to lay out once to give to the some. During the School Vacation new girls come to the shelter every day. Its becoming known that they can get protection here and parents have found out. From their lives to see the different so its exact oh its good to go to school so the french umbrage and asking can you bring some home you know. Take care of you. Today relatives have been invited to the shelter for the first time. The girl who was rescued at the age of nine hopes that her family will be here too. But without necklaces but wearing nice new clothes thats how the young women want to greet their parents. And some of the girls havent seen their relatives for months or even years. Reconciliation within the family is also one of the goals of the foundation. That theyve been living. In mind and also physical theyll be deciding for themselves yes this doesnt look well and they would be moving even to america nobody knows the would be mother given. The medias people who understand that if game is but. They dont go back to design. Well try. Oh look i. Know that the young women welcome their families and tell them about their new lives. But they also describe the pain they suffered every. Every thank. You brazil hopes to become a doctor. She wants josephine her rescuer to be proud of. Rosellas family has not come today. Im feeling back some are not friends and. You know by them and they see my story and you know miley family failed a big lesson like. Its often difficult to convince the parents that the beautiful being spring suffering and the Child Marriage and genital mutilation are harmful and traumatic experiences. Theyre going to go so i. Came to one of the girls for the first time after a distressed kid. And some of them are genuinely requesting to go home with them sometimes theyre going see about that its possible to live through google who doesnt do things you dont trust some of the. Edge through the years chatter has managed to retain her faith in the future shes spending the weeks until she can move to the city with her son at her parents house. For a while shes living like a traditional some buru woman again a life she thought shed left behind. Oh. Hugh not in the city i can work and get paid every month. But here all you can do is milk oats if you have any thats not for me the best. You know this is the only way of life that churches father has ever known but his daughters problems have changed him. When my younger daughters will only marry when they are adults. Im an upgrade your so i will not be circumcised and they will all go to school. How they mean to tell you the shit. It will be a long time before everyone in the sample or a Community Comes around to this way of thinking. This. Guys lies all girls i think if you are someones wife and your husband beats you leave him if possible well go and find a job thats a b. S. I wouldnt do the never lose hope even if you are ahead of the when you die and dont wait for someone to come and help you you must help yourselves and misogynistic this. World. A journey into the heart of darkness. Their team went back to his homeland syria to film the territories under i ask control. He shot scenes never seen before of the radical islamists and their children. The fighters of tomorrow. Thirty minutes long t. W. Keeps on about the moments that before. Its all about the sluice inside. Its all about George Chance to discover the world from different perspectives. Join us immediately sponsored by distinctive instagram or hers at g. W. Stories go to topics each week on instagram. 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