VIDEO: Oumie Sissokho, of The Girls’ Agenda in The Gambia, shares her perspective about how survivors’ stories empower and create a positive impact, in this brief conversation with...
Global Health
À raconter l’histoire de la mortalité...
VIDEO: Alexise Ouedraogo parle de son engagement à protéger la santé reproductive des femmes et des filles en Côte d’Ivoire dans cette conversation avec Elisa Gambino, One...
“Bringing Life to These Issues”
VIDEO: Jama Jack, of Think Young Women in the Gambia, talks with Elisa Gambino, One Production Place, about the power of survivors’ stories in efforts to end female genital mutilation and...
“I am a survivor of female genital mutilation”
VIDEO: Sise Sawaneh, from the Republic of the Gambia, discusses her advocacy to end female genital mutilation in this brief conversation with Elisa Gambino, One Production Place.
Her Only option
She stood there in their family cattle kraal looking closely at the seemingly dry manure piled on a dirty plastic. She searched through the waste, looking for that “perfect” dry...
Mesh Lives Matter: Told I would “have to live...
My life is never going to be how it should be. My story begins in 2006, I had a TVT mesh implant procedure after many years of suffering with stress urinary incontinence due to the births...
Time to Get Personal
I’m the middle child and only daughter. I was confused throughout most my childhood about what it meant to be the only girl in my family, alongside my three brothers. But my confusion was...
Persevere: Greatness Awaits You
I grew up in what was referred to as a squatters community or captured land. Families living there were below the poverty line. It meant that most were living in poor conditions and seeking...
Changing the Narrative
My journey as a young leader and advocate began when I was about 10 years old. Even as a child, I had so much passion for activism. Together with my fellow young activists, I led many...
A Global Force of Voices
VIDEO: Julia Wiklander, founder of Girls’ Globe, leads a global network of young women working to raise the voices of women and girls around the world.