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on 16 March in the House of Culture

the screening of the film European bill "Desert Flower"

Waris Dirie was born in Somalia between nomadic herders, became one of the most sought after models of the time and traveled a fascinating path to tread the most famous catwalks and appearing on the covers of top fashion magazines.

At 5 years, Dirie suffered genital mutilation at age 13 fled a marriage of convenience and had to walk for days in the desert before arriving in Mogadishu, capital of Somalia.

There, his parents sent her to work as a maid to the Embassy of your country in London, where he spent adolescence without learning to read and write.

Before returning to a country ravaged by war, Dirie preferred to remain illegally in London and working as a clerk.

While working in a fast food restaurant, she was discovered by famed photographer Terry Donaldson.

About this autobiographical theme turns the plot of the movie European bill (UK, Germany and Austria) "The Desert Flower" that led in 2009 by Sherry Hofmann and produced under the genres of social and dramatic film was screened at the afternoon of March 16, Sunday, at the Hall of the House of Culture of Alguazas under planned activities in the Local Women's History Month, organized jointly by the Department of Equality and the largest city council group of females in the population.

About eighty alguaceños attended a ribbon pass under free admission, provided a clear overview of the situation of marginalization and inequality experienced by women in the Third World where the situations of poverty, backwardness and violence mentalities binds and atavism that relegate the female sector of their societies into the background of submission and cancellation of personality and initiative in all spheres and planes of the environment.

As expressing the City Councillor for Equality, María Dolores Hernández García, "for the second year major initiatives and awareness of this kind are promoted recording a great reception from the people of the town as well as the fact of transmitting a clear taking a stand in favor of equal opportunities between men and women. "

Source: Ayuntamiento de Alguazas