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#48 Nimko Ali - On Protecting & Empowering Girls and Young Women

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Nimko is the co-founder of Daughters of Eve - alongside Leyla Hussein - a non profit organisation, that works to advance and protect the physical, mental, sexual and reproductive health rights of young people from female genital mutilation practising communities. They recognise that (FGM) is a form of gender-based violence. Daughters of Eve believe that young people need to be supported holistically and work with women and girls and give them specialist support. In 2014, Daughters Of Eve received an award at the Red Magazine Woman of the Year awards for their work. They were also placed sixth in the Woman's Hour Power List. We recorded this is quite a busy coffee shop in Notting Hill and Nimko shares a lot about her life and work. We chatted for well over an hour so I’ve split this episode into 2 parts so this is the first part.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control Alt Delete. I absolutely love making this podcast and I'm so happy to bring you another episode.

0:08.0

So today's guest is Nimco Alley. Nimco is the founder of Daughters of Eve, a non-profit organization that works to advance and protect

0:15.0

the physical, mental and sexual health rights of young people.

0:19.0

At Dors Aviv, they recognize that FGM is a form of gender-based violence.

0:22.7

They believe that young people need to be supported in all areas of their life, and they work

0:26.7

with women and girls to give them specialist support.

0:30.0

In 2014, daughter of Eve received an award at the Red Magazine Women of the Year Awards,

0:34.8

and they were placed number six in the Women's Hour Power List.

0:37.8

We recorded this episode in quite a busy coffee shop in Notting Hill.

0:40.9

It was the only place that me and Nimko could meet up and

0:43.2

chat. So there is some background noise, but it's a really interesting chat and

0:47.5

Nimko shares a lot about her life and her work and we chatted for well over an

0:51.4

hour so I've actually split these episodes into two parts.

0:54.3

NIMCO is also writing a book at the moment and there'll be a lot more about that coming out soon.

0:58.8

So make sure you follow her and so you don't miss any announcements about the book. It's going to be amazing.

1:04.2

So thanks again and I hope you enjoy this episode. Here it is.

1:10.4

I'm happy to sit down and have a conversation if it means another person doesn't have to suffer the things that I have to suffer or another person does and doesn't have to be ignored or dismissed.

1:19.0

And I'm also happy to kind of call people out on their bullshit.

1:29.0

So I'm with Nimco Alley in a corner of a coffee shop. So a little bit about what you do, you are amazing and I think that everything that you're doing for

1:34.2

women, women's rights, social activism, like campaigning, oh my God you're doing so much

1:39.5

and I look at you for help in the politics arena at the moment because the internet is scary.

1:45.6

So where did it all start your kind of, yeah, this desire to change the world?

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