To be for and initiation rites before we talk about lets look at what some young men have to go through the numbers may not be as high but this suffer mental and physical pain across africa different cultures month the transition from boyhood to manhood initiation rituals in south africa many young men who say that lies also result. In their front close to the fall river early in the morning and these initiation students practice traditional chants it is a highly secretive process we are lucky out of 20 students these 5 and their teacher are willing to talk they perform a cleansing ritual in the river every morning these schools are infamous for their allegedly brutal methods but this young initiate shows no signs of fear. Some guys are scared but thats only because people like such things so some have this fear but because this is our culture i feel nothing i feel like most of the boys here have to go through it. All. The traditional clothes. And pity ethnic groups believe a boy can only become a man if he goes through the rites of passage like chanting stick fighting and hunting the rite of passage culminates with the questionable ideas about masculinity. Because once you come from displeasing kin to cry its like. Someone you yourself have passed that we can feel pain is lake here with us forming leg a little bit to be a soldier attitudes like this made this young mans experience all the more painful at the age of 18 alani acosta was sent by his father to an Initiation School as soon as he arrived he and his cousin were subjected to daily beatings but alarm his cousin was a proud young man and defied the humiliations so he was often taken aside and punished repeatedly with further beatings one evening the eldest took him away once again to teach him a lesson this time he never returned because and never came back because he was a fighter and was one person that could stand themselves. For. The n. P. T. And to a point where. They killed. And then new. And he just came back and tonight i think. The Initiation Schools on to registered all monitored much like female genital mutilation initiates can also die as a result of botched circumcisions traditionally known as. Lose ones manhood forever. Asked about the whereabouts of his cousin one of the eldest threatened him with the same fate galante knew then that he had to flee for me i had to choose in terms of her to my mother and. By being it is. Over to my mother. So i. Thought. His best. Opted for a life thats nights he ran away and never returned but his decision brought disgrace on his family and hes too scared to go back to his Community Today years after the ordeal he still lives far from his village and has no contact with his parents. Ive been in a lot of fights. Even this one made. Me have to prove yourself as a man and i dont think that will and. And to get confirmation from. Having an open discussion about the point of initiation rites is almost impossible because the young men are not supposed to talk about their experiences. Many who are traumatised carried with them for the rest of their lives. In south africa a little more than 400 young men have lost their lives in the past 7 years and all the challenges faced by these young men the small supplied and forward when we talk about the young women fighting here to female genital mutilation already for most young women and girls. Of their physical and mental well being. With more. Hello there and welcome to the spread a safe space where we get to discuss everything sex and relationships so there are 4 types of female genital cutting also known as female genital mutilation or f g m d type one is the partial or total removal of the clear terrorists type 2 is a partial or total removal of the clearest and believe me a menorah type 3 is the narrowing of the vital orifice then using the womb shot they leave a small hole the size of a pinky finger to urinate and for menstruation once she has intercourse for the 1st time its up to the man to open her up again which obviously causes a lot of pain and bleeding for includes all of the harmful procedures to the female genitalia for non medical purposes for example piercing burning or incisions so many women have and continue to experience both sexual and Reproductive Health issues as a result of this some of the effects could include complications during their menstrual. Hemorrhage and infections so severe because death in an effort to g. M. C. There are communities worldwide that are working hard to eradicate the practice this involves having conversations about the dangers involved. All parts off of g. M. Are so common in many african cultures what a later edition of pottery. It is a minor problem to our thinking where can yes must fire region many young woman lost her legs but when the goal of this painful procedure just reached a young woman about washing when and confronted a mother who forced her to be caught. In the year 2011 kenya passed a law that basically said that female genital mutilation was illegal despite this its still being practiced across the country and even here where we are in our county and we want to investigate why and id like to begin with selena who is actually a member of this community and an activist i know for a fact that you had said to your mother that you didnt want to undergo this right and she forced you to i think for me my mom because she wanted me to grow up like a normal my say girl child because my grandma was a cutter and i used to go to watch many girls being circumcised so it was such a traumatic experience for me and i kept telling my mom that its something i never want to go through so she didnt think that my decision or my choice counted so she went ahead and decided for me the event planned as a surprise ceremony and upon coming home from this meeting my uncle everything was said and i found a group of women and they dislike me in 1st me. So normally puzzle weve just heard from your daughter that you forced her to get f g m why did you do that. Camilla and not the mother of a young. Member of a 1000000 i live in the middle you my life. So you mean to tell me that if there was no law against if g. M. You would still practice it. Among. Them as i did then another one. Then. I dont know i guess i. Doubt theyd. Stand. So let me ask the men in this community we have some very good looking morons here though they come up one on me walk you must say when theres a cow on one can buy i had to cut to. Get a cookie i think it might be. But idea were talking about a humble practice here one of the long term effects of f. G. And what have you had to contend with psychologically if jim is not something that in so with the day you have got something that follows you for a lifetime 2 hours after they cut you start she varying you start feeling fever your body temperature rise so you can contract infections that those other short times after you are no much you are even the mrs coming out is easy i challenge another thing is that when you are mad that you go through a process called up its another to be open then when you are you want to give birth and in our community we give but as long as we can so that means after everybody you have to be cut for you to pass the child yes all right were also hearing from all these women who have undergone if g. M. That it does cause complications that its harmful so do you want another one of your daughters to go through that. When im with helen my boss and he with you guys how could not and i mean you couldnt buy. Chief here you are somebody comes to the Police Station and says ive just been forced to go through and weve read some instances where the Police Officers ask them for photos of the thing happening this is not realistic what makes these guys not report the time they got there that being nothing more now. With this stigmatized with their yeah that is that he that is out hell be because. Most of the stations dont have. Press 10 protection most of the. Battle maybe a i doubt fair to go to the trooper to the Police Station so but isnt that why we have so many layers of administration so that if the police if you as the chief is not able to come to this community should you be able to send people to survey. I send people to. To check not i mean if were saying that the people being circumcised or you know going through a 9 or 10 what how will they know to come to report what we do and that probably helped us a lot we collaborate with touches the village elders and the community at large ok but to to to be fair chief we already know that thats not working its not really working entirely so lets talk about arrests have there been any people arrested in iraq. For many even the accused ok so days not agreeing with you but i want to come to salina 1st because is this ringing true to you do you feel like you can trust the Police Officers to enforce the law 1st of all we dont have any Police Station in may really chief were being told you dont even have a Police Station here so where would you even begin. In fact we have. Shes saying shes saying in most or in most recently in fact that is so how do you enforce a law when then forces are not there we do try ok so speaking of stakeholders kaz what more can we do as women to work with the women who are still going through this how can we be more active stakeholders i feel like we really need to be able to understand the ways in which different communities are able to absorb information and then use that and take that and find ways to educate women and my more precise question is how do we begin to change the mindset of mama who is old and very set in her ways how do we begin to educate or to have conversations with her in a way that she can have a ha moment where shes like actually we need to stop that ok education is something that youre very keen on is this the way forward to stop after them do you think we have a center in most euro its more of a rescue center now because girls are fleeing into that institution escaping Child Marriage and if g. M. So creating such safe spaces and gets a new kitchen will be a huge. Thing that can solve this issue of if g. M. Ok saudia what is your proposal moving forward how do we finally get rid of this. We need to have county and Community Based approaches for my Community Maybe engaging the religious leaders in a walk for the mass i may be alternative or a rite of passage might watch because these people are have values attached so how do we do link if jim from the legion how do we dealing if jim from culture what are the Political Leadership doing about it female politicians to begin with youre talking about changes right from the top all the way to the bottom this is where we have to call it a wrap theyve been fantastic solutions which have been suggested i really hope the people who can implement them are listening and speaking to you chief thank you for watching. Raising awareness is the best way cost. And i record that is exactly what some young people. Theyve created a Radio Program and on this program they discuss all manner of topics like rape abortion and f. G. 18 year old greece their move has been the junior reporter for 6 years she lives in abidjan the capital of the ivory coast in her Society Women do not have the same rights as men and certain topics like female genital mutilation simply are not talked about but grace doesnt shy away from tough topics todays radio report is about abortion. People dont talk about the things you see thing to keep secret from their families which cues a lot of young group it to be complicated to talk to people about abortion but now do my best to convince them its a topic we have to interrupt kate. On the subject is taboo in the ivory coast because many people consider it america all interference with gods will many abortions take place in secret without medical support and on the hygiene and clearance of conditions grace wants to open the conversation oh my god we noticed that more and more young girls have an abortion i would like to know what to think about. Things like this risky the girl could die become infertile it will have consequences for her social life it could hurt a physically and womens empowerment remains a challenge in topic in the country i villains are not used to being asked of these questions especially not by a young woman breaking the code of silence this is the goal of the radio show a young person a message here everything will be discussed sexuality Domestic Violence rape all female genital mutilation the project was launched in 2014 since then greece and had police producing one our show every saturday stephanie i k is one of the senior journalist who supports the junior reporters. On the back of the file so you notice the kids opened up they express their feelings they talk to. Things they would not have talked about before they got involved. What used to be awkward has become normal for the 18 year old and that fills greeces with pride. We need to congratulate young girls like grace who take initiative because thanks to them we can move forward really we need to encourage them. Encouraging young girls to speak up this is what degrees do and her Program Stands for. Yes because. I want them to grease us decided to study journalism and shes determined to empower other young girls like her. So its very difficult to get over shyness but i encourage my friends my grandparents my parents my brothers and sisters the people i know to talk about taboo subjects but if we dont talk about it no one will do it for us. Please once you continue speaking out for the voiceless not raising her voice is simply not an option anymore. Speak up raise your voice is the message that i got from dad last report and here is not that strong voice straight out of how ugandan books are patricia but she is their brain in well kick boxing champion but the 2 time world title holder says she wont fall if wait until shes defeated Sexual Harassment in uganda sport less than you dont want to mess with. 13 titles to him named patricia is the reigning world boxing champion in the female lightweight division. If you have a lot of courage to stand up it takes a lot of courage to to make it to the top i never know when you make it to the top some people still doubt. But if you listen to the voices of other people than listening to yourself you find out you block out your so from what really you want to be. True ill take area she has faced negativity discrimination in uganda kick boxing is considered immense on the sport so patricias rise to the top was an uphill struggle. People are not going to and thats what i want to change. Just to be one for you to want to. I choose to be a champion swash because when i was a young guy that had a lot of trans bedrooms dont come usually. So i reached a point grab i said i have followed enough i could back telling you but why do i have to tell myself the 2 time World Champion isnt just a tough opponent in the ring she also supports female athletes who have suffered Sexual Harassment and violence up a large has a very clear message for the paper traitors people are mentally sick because you have something to show to the wild but someone is actually limiting access to reach where you want to go many of the girls were crying about Sexual Harassment a lot of them but its never occurred to me because once i showed them what i wanted. No one even ever thought about coming that hey patricia this underscores for me since my school days with the hell out of today patricia couple of knows that she cant just let her feast speak for themselves in her home village in goa the 29 year old founded a club for mostly young female kids boxes she believes that hope for a Better Future thats with the young generation is specially if leaders also work towards creating a safer environment to figure develop their talents we can do this we can achieve it we are greater than we are actually we are the beginning of every. This years she is focused on defending a world title she is convinced that he achievements who inspire more african girls to stay focused on their dreams. 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