With ilwad elman from somalia, a peace activist whos dedicated to improving the lives of millions of imperishable country in 1991, the civil war broke out in somalia and its estimated that half a 1000000 people have been killed since then. A large part of the somali population has been living in poverty and fear for decades. Militants have taken control of several areas, especially in southern somalia, killing and extorting money from the rural population. Ilwad elman has made it her mission to help victims of the war in her home country. And she is using the power of nature and sports to bring much needed healing. Using the ocean to heal from trauma is new to many in somalia. But its just one way ilwad elman helps, former child soldiers and rape survivors overcome their trauma. She calls it a combination of yoga and mogadishu. The therapy aims to break down walls of silence and heal sweating it out in yoga mat and then asking people to draw comparisons between challenging, challenging experiences like you know, pushing your body to limits and testing yourself. And whens the last time you experience Something Like that . And it resonated and we all saw theres a body of research thats available on these approaches. And we want to see that also fits in a context like somalia didnt expect global attention for her work when she returned to her home country 10 years ago. She and her family were exiles in canada for many years. She was 19, didnt speak the local language and wasnt directly exposed to every day life in a war torn country. But her mother was already determined to go back out human rights activist, a fierce custodian of my fathers legacy. Raised my sisters and i as a single mother herself, and decided to come back to somalia at the height of the conflict. And was my move from her, i saw that you know, you can be anything and anything you want to anything and everything you want to be as a woman, thats not a message that women and girls often hear. And so under her visionary leadership, i also was empowered, encouraged, sometimes you challenged to be more following in her mothers footsteps threw herself into organizing money, looking after for my child soldiers and also women and young girls who have suffered abuse. We started the 1st wave Crisis Center as a result of the rampant rights abuse. Theyre happy girls. We provide services for children and youth that are being coopted by groups and organizations. And another human rights directly is the freedom to life and safety and determination as well too. But a job like this isnt for the faint hearted father was killed in 1906 then almost a year ago, her older sister was murdered. The painful experience led to question everything, but she ultimately decided to stay. We share the same risks of the beneficiaries that were supposed to or were trying to support. And you know, i think the reality that conflicts often protract because people are waiting for things to get better. And thats why i think we have been in war for 30 years now. And as you know, pardon the pun, but pull the trigger on just starting the work. And thats exactly what did the 29 year old reported on the situation in our home country to the United NationsSecurity Council . She knows exactly how to use social media to draw attention. We are hyper connected. Everyone is online, also reclaiming the narrative. And thats something im very proud to also be a part of by creating opportunity space and resources for young people to actually tell their own story. Now more and more stories are being heard. Its important to show a different image of somalia, not just chaos and destruction. For the past decade. Work focused on emergency aid, but now theres much more to it. Transitioning a lot from huli Service Delivery where we respond to violations, to abuse, to trauma and has grown into space. Now were preventing these issues from happening, whether its through a change, whether its through empowering and educating communities to end the cycle of harmful traditional, whether its through working with government to put in place legislation to fundamentally change somali society. And she believes she can do it with some obvious use by her side. And the this remarkable woman is right here with me in the studio in what a man, welcome to the 77 percent. Thank you very much for having me. So you are here in germany because you just received the german africa prize in berlin. Congratulation. Thank you very much for 300 feel when you heard the news. So very excited. Its a big honor, a big privilege, as well, to be recognized amongst 700000000 young people that are in there under the age of 30, in africa to be able to represent. And the issues that we work on to be a recipient of the ward handed over by the minister of foreign affairs. Those all quite special. You do . Yoga you offer ocean therapy, you offer a book ational training to young people there. You also work with victims of the war with the rape survivors also with form of child soldiers. So all these different initiatives, the, what is the big vision driving them . All the big vision really is to create a peaceful coexistence. And we believe that in order to support and facilitate the transition of conflict in somalia, a concert that has for attractive for my whole life, 30 years, we need to look at peace building from a triple nexus approach, humanitarian aid, peace building, but also development. We want to teach people how to be at peace within, and thats why we focus on Mental Health and looking at alternative techniques to be able to facilitate that process, whether its yoga, football, surfing, but then also looking at the underlying grievances of conflict and we know that young people, because of poverty, unemployment are often recruited into armed groups because of that. So we try to both create the enabling and progressive environment for young people to not just survive in somalia but to thrive. And the whole issue of peace is something that one might see runs within your family. Your father was a very famous peace activist. Your mother was also very active as a social worker and a social activist as well. Tell me how this has shaped you and the work that you do. My parents are both are done to rights activists in somalia and my father to this day is considered a small father of peace. He had a very famous slogan called drop the gun, pick up the pen and was almost larger than life. He had just locks were pastel colored shorts and really just was very Simplistic Solutions to old issues. So he had a Football Team in the tissue before he unfortunately was killed, which brought together young people that were being coopted by the wards. And that were opposing factions on both sides. And before people knew, they started playing at 6, rather they started trading together into marrying. And something as simple as football was a solution that he gave birth to. He was so effective in his work that unfortunately he was killed for the work that he was doing. And that also led my mother to flee somalia with my sisters. And i so that my sister and i could have an opportunity for refuge and safety, like millions of others that have to leave some only because of the war. We went through the traditional refugee route and then got asylum in canada in 2000 and i decided to return back to somalia. But my parents activism and the torch of activism, if you will, was one that naturally was passed down to me and to my sisters as well. It wasnt a journey that was prescribe, honest. But even throughout our upbringing in canada, we always knew that we had a bigger purpose back home. And im sure that a lot of people are happy that you have really followed that dream of your father, that you are carrying it on and doing all the work that you are doing in somalia because youre really impacting the lives of many people, especially women. And not just the women, but also the lives of many children as you we will see in one of your most recent projects. You can take a look there this place is called and brazil and somalia hopes and dreams. And thats more hoping to inspire giving bearings that havent abandoned the streets, an opportunity for future a safe space where they can be nurtured, where they have the care and support that they need and an opportunity to grow. We house children that we have had a referral from hospitals of women that have abandoned their babies after giving birth in hospitals. And we also give shelter to women that have unwanted pregnancies with the hope that they will not undergo unsafe abortions, but rather have a safe zone so that that child can have a future such cute babies that we saw. There is a tell me how does the work of caring for these little ones . How does it relate to the peace work that you do in somalia . I mean its 100 percent connected. These are children. The youngest baby that we have this less than 3 months old and we constantly receive new children and all the children you saw in that clip are ones that are banded in the street. In somalia, the conversation of Sexual Reproductive Health rights is not one thats even begun. And women are often able to hide and watch them. Pregnancies on children conceived either through sex out of wedlock or through rape as well to through big clothing that we were culturally and religiously. But then just throw the baby away in the middle of the street. And we receive all the children i saw in this orphanage, through referrals from community members, through partnerships that we have with Health Care Workers and police. And its, its a very terrible issue, but this is connected to our peace work because these children that are this young are also being born into war. And what we are providing at the most basic is a shelter for them. Mothers who care for them and sewed, and thats all the babies need right now, but we also need to prepare them vironment in which theyre supposed to evolve and grow. So that the next generation, or even in their childhood, they wont have to continuously live in on conflict. And do you not only care for, for the youngest in the society, but also you Work Together with you have and you see that you believe that you can change social norms if you Work Together with the young people in somalia, what potential do you see in the young people of somalia . Absolutely. I mean our population 78 percent is under the age of 30, of that 44 percent is under the age of 15. And they have only ever known war 30 years of conflict to so its simple math. We know that if we want to create a paradigm shift of a positive trajectory in somalia, we need to invest in the majority and majority young people. So we work with those are the most vulnerable society, survivors of sexual database violence. Children and young people that have joined armed groups and are now we building weekly in their lives away. Also working with the overwhelming majority of young people that have not been victims of conflict but are in these conditions have never left and trying to be part of the change. So i believe in cultivating leadership and providing skills, opportunities for creative platforms and cultivate leadership as well to say young people can actually be part of the transition of leadership in the country. Thank you so much. Thank you for showing us that we young people actually need to be the change that we want to see in our societies and all the best for the work that you continue doing in somalia. Thank you so much for being here and you very much. And now we move on to another woman who was also decided to relocate back to the continent. And shes the kind of person that you want as a friend because its always happy hour where she is in the street watching. Born in germany, grow up in probably growing up in Holland Africa and you feel like an african thats not sure thats right that you have to thats there. On the other point that comes from your background, which you are not going to african you know what im trying to . I think its going to be a moment where they actually think if you come out of the police and the president back from coming here to see whats going on, his brother, im not coming back here tonight to tell him this enough for me. So maybe ill partner and he try a poem, is what i trace it comes to god not coming through what youve been doing here because more opportunities out there because he was born in london, but he was already living here for a few years. So he thought that there was more opportunities out there for me than the movement in poland doing this in 1000 private road. So i actually picked up my bag and, and came to ghana and promised its for me it was number 10 for me. Oh, so if you could only be here where doing things for themselves and all of the child, you start a business here, ill do as well about it. And friend of mine went to nigeria and went for an event. Interesting research on something you can do not make was when i went to this event and those in need in time to bond mix in friends. And it was so cool. I know you got 2 good reasons for it. So i think this is something you should look into with a child, you dont use age and ive gone to school in a right for its when. But for my mind is just what its called when you talk about props and actually went very well. And i was there for me. And there are those who can again, i dont think an outraged woman, indomitable preconference. I want to be insulted. And by the want to be a doctor, anybody wants to be a lawyer. Everybody wants to sort out how to muddle through. Who are some who are not in holland, want a good job in holland, different government to come and do it was mixed drinks liked out by them i think is best more into it than just mix and drink to get you can actually make a living out of it, im livin for me as i was making money and i dont think yet how to make me be a doctors between anybody i whatever, ill make it is more than enough for an average in down in the next 4 or 5 to 10 years. I really want to hold my own bar like a place whereby you know, you can come in for things being you can come into my dream before you go out to mind my tools down while they endured, i want to move back to africa. And yes, we are council who gives a things, i mean, everything is in order, and its not hectic since here, but theres so many up and shes out here for us. We can make africa better. We can make donna a place that people coming here has already done is already there. The place is the prime time tree now. So yeah, im just making sounds here. 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Prop for the videos which some good money from the video aspect of it, but its my passion. So i think i do. Ive joined the need word for mind because an odd but what a brand. So after 3 months, i found b. M. W. That finds you ready for it to strike step on it. I have to admit that vintage cars and not really my thing, but i wouldnt say no to surfing. I love being in the water and im sure that with some practice, ill become as good as these guys right here. They are from durban, south africa, and they are taking us on a tour. They have beloved city as it turns out to durban as a paradise for surfers. My name is i, my name is alvin. And were about to show you around our beautiful city, especially how they would place the beachfront known as the golden mile. Perfect swell and the year round. Warm ocean make africas surfing capital alvan and touchy and like to catch an Early Morning wait for the full shooting off to work. The 2 lifeguards call the 8 kilometers of beach and promenade their office. But today is their day off and the 2 friends can show was around for serious surfers, there is no way around the golden mile. This is basically like the breeding ground. When you make your name in the surfing industry, this is where you step it up with the big boys and the want to. And this is where you seen and known with its beaches being parks and nightclubs. The promenade feels more like a big playground. Not only for surface, the skate park at the bay of plenty attracts young people from all over the city. And its hoped to have to south africas skating nobility. Our 2 lifeguards are no strangers here into a sport that screams and once again saw the old coming and flying and cements different people and going to name different culture is good because it is easily accessible, free for everyone and safe. The promenade is arguably one of south africas most inclusive public spaces. Being able to skate and liberty is also helping to boost the confidence of young talents. Which give me a sense of freedom makes me feel like i can do anything i can do include the top of the mind and just believing in myself. Skating makes hungry. And so we are off to the city to check out durban street cuisine. Calvin takes us to his neighborhood way. Promise us the best bunny cha in town. A half a loaf of bread filled with hot curry. This hugely popular dish originates from 19th century indian immigrants. A city in durban, we have a big thing to stand. Does hold these amazing foods, these amazing countries may soon be our knees. So my flaws would make sense if some of those low coming through experience would be different cultures job, while alvin went to swim school. When he was a kid, got smacked. If his parents found him anywhere near the ocean, his parents who could not swim, were terrified, he would drown. Still today, many children never learn how to swim. Let alone. To change that alvin and kaya found, its a song zulu for together to teach children to swim and ride the waves like crows, alvin believes the ocean can teach them important life skills. It gives them that stoke, it gives them that feeling that there is something true to life and its a sport, you know, you got to love what you do and thats what youre trying to teach. The kids with more than 50 kids, taking part in hope to raise the next generation of pro surface. Not without merit. Some of their protegees, already competing in professional total minds, keeping up this citys fame and bad brings us to the end of todays show. As always, id like to know your thoughts on the stories that we had on the program. Send us an email up to 77. Com or you can also get in touch with us on social media. And ill leave you with music from the town kids that we already have them on the show. Last time they came in kids who are going viral on social media for imitating famous music stars and politicians. 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