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00:00Good afternoon everyone. My name is Aynab Jammer and I proudly and I am proudly representing my beautiful land Somalia.
00:08I was born and raised in Somalia. I grew up as a refugee fleeing my country due to climate issues and conflict.
00:18As a child, my childhood consisted of my family and I riding on camels, looking, searching for safety and a home.
00:27But every place we found was destroyed. And luckily our family got accepted and we found opportunity in the UK.
00:37And that's where I pursued my education and my family and I were able to rebuild our life.
00:44Today I would love to share the mission that brought me to Miss World.
00:48I'm the founder of the Female Initiative Foundation, a project born from one of the most darkest moments of my life.
00:54I stand here today not just as a voice for the voiceless, but as a survivor of female genital mutilation.
01:03I speak for the millions of girls whose voices were silenced before they ever had the chance to live freely.
01:08I know what it feels like to have your rights taken away, to feel powerless and to be told that your voice doesn't matter.
01:18And I know there's a lot of people in the world who don't know what female genital mutilation is.
01:26And so I think it's really important that I raise awareness and I educate.
01:34And that was my main purpose at Miss World, was to teach people what female genital mutilation is.
01:39And I'd love to share with you guys the procedure that's done.
01:42I know that it's something that can be very uncomfortable, but I believe that it's something that the world needs to hear and needs to know.
01:48And I will explain to you this at first hand.
01:52I was seven years old. I was playing, I was outside playing with my friends when I was picked up.
01:57My clothes were ripped off and I was taken to a room where three women waited with blades, scissors and old tools.
02:06These women were not doctors, nor were they medically trained.
02:10Just tradition passed down through generations.
02:14They cut off my clitoris, the part of my body meant for womanhood.
02:18They then sliced away the inner labia and the outer labia.
02:22I remember I screamed in pain because during the procedure there's no anesthesia used, no comfort, only blood and loud silence.
02:31I remember crying and begging, but the woman told me to be quiet, to be brave and to be proud.
02:39As that was part of our tradition.
02:40Once the cutting was done, my skin was stitched back together with a thick thread or thorn, leaving only a tiny part of a hole, barely enough for urine or blood to pass through.
02:54This process is called infubilation and is one of the most severe forms of FGM.
02:59After the procedure, I was laid in a dark room with my legs tightly tied together.
03:07I was laid in a dark room with my legs tightly tied together.
03:37After the procedure, I was laid in a dark room with my legs tightly tied together.
04:07For days, I remember I was in a dark room and I was bleeding every day.
04:12I had no toys, I had nothing.
04:15I only had charcoal next to me and I used to draw on the wall next to me and I'd just draw my dreams away just to keep me alive.
04:22Because that part, after the procedure is where a lot of girls die and they don't make it our life.
04:28That moment changed me forever and my childhood came to an end.
04:33I survived, but many of girls didn't and they don't.
04:38I stand here today for the joy that my mother couldn't reap her love.
04:44For generations, our mothers, our grandmothers and the women before them endured this pain in silence.
04:51They were taught that suffering is part of being a woman and that this is normal.
04:55But it's not normal.
04:57It's not okay and it's not part of our destiny.
04:59I know that I cannot change my past, but I can fight for their future and I know the consequences that come with that.
05:06But I get so many messages from little girls from my country telling me that they're going to be getting female genital mutilation done soon.
05:1698% of women in Somalia have undergone femorgenital mutilation.
05:3198% is a very big number and that 2% are just the infants that have not reached the age to be cut yet.
05:38That's a whole nation of women in my country.
05:40And through my foundation, I bring awareness, I go into community and I do public speaking.
05:47I teach mothers that we can, that love should never, that tradition should never come at the cost of a child's body or soul.
05:55We can honor our traditions without having to harm our little daughters.
06:00I also created a sisterhood of survivors back home in the UK.
06:05Most of them my closest friends.
06:07We cry together, we heal together.
06:10But most importantly, we use our voices.
06:13We fight as we believe that our voices can protect the next generation.
06:19I want to protect all the young girls from blades that should never touch them.
06:24No little girl should go from playing outside to bleeding in a dark room.
06:28And the crown that I wear as in Somalia doesn't just represent beauty, but to me it represents responsibility.
06:33It represents truth.
06:36And I wear it for Fortun, I wear it for De'aqa.
06:39Fortun and De'aqa are both full of life and dreams whose family I interviewed.
06:42Both of them bled to death from this same horror.
06:48Their hearts stopped beating because somebody thought that tradition was way more important than their lives.
06:54Their bodies could barely, their bodies couldn't survive what mine barely did.
06:58And so, no matter what the consequences is, I'll continue to keep fighting until I see change and until I see the world talk about it.
07:10Thank you so much.
07:16Thank you Somalia.