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we talk to teenage moms about whole pregnancy changed their lives and we meet a young median woman who escaped charged marriage. now we've got a few emotionally tough topics to tackle in today's show, but we'll start by meeting a 1000000 dancer b butter ibrahim, my, you guys, she is a bomb aqua best artist using artistic expressions to speak out against gender inequality. this outstanding dancer has tom tough foot prince internationally, but home in bama co. she has intensified the call for respect to women. i in my believe that my name is deborah abraham, my girls. before i am an artist, is korea dancer performa creator and into return directory,

should i am currently with fossil down the theater run by g. me be bought. it is in her element. she performing her solo act on the streets of her home town, bama cole in it, she dramatize as women struggle for recognition and respect. he brought diminution with minis. come, he knew many dresses, and look around them all day. that doesn't mean him a whole it doesn't mean that i'm fulfill will be and she go, or that closing myself was to pick you up. no, no it's . i have principal has principal that i respect you for so that it makes one self and that makes people respect me. the one in her performance be better uses her skill as a dancer to fight against the assignment of traditional female roles. i

do. it's about a woman who is looking for and is told chef, chef, but you are too beautiful for me to throw. belle, you don't need to walk to marry you or you'll be my girlfriend or my mistress, and i'll take care of you on this wanted. i'll put you in a nice house and take care of you. wide. the boss had similar experiences patronized for simply being a woman being taken for granted in her work. you did, there were times when i was just carry. wanted to give up. i wanted to drop everything they said to me, but then something in me that doesn't want to keep up on the asia. secondly, i know that one day things will be better. carl is left farmville and when women finally claimed higher and higher because of the men won't be resentful or jealous

because it does create a bit of jealousy. duff's office. good, but that's not such a big deal. i'm wondering girls normal is in normal a marlene society is still very much dominated by men and as a long way to go to reach equality, this is always changing and i think that as time goes by, these things will change. and those who don't understand that they'll be the ones who so ah suddenly change may be uncomfortable for some bert as be butter says if you don't understand the importance of equality, you may be soon be the one to suffer for it. well, speaking changes in life, let's talk about teenage pregnancies and unprotected sex is the reason why young

girls may find themselves unexpectedly pregnant. but there are numerous underlying reasons for these. and if kimani and o r st. deborah, tim headed to window in namibia to find out more hello and welcome to another episode of the 77 percent this week we are in fin took in a me be a more specifically in havana, the informal settlement that you see behind me. and it's because statistically low income countries are more likely to experience the problem of early pregnancy or teen pregnancy as compared to high income countries. and particularly in this area, you can imagine that it's a serious problem. and that's why we're here and we want to find out, why does this problem exist? what are the consequences and what can we do to put an end to it? who better to answer these questions for me then some libyans. and we're going to begin with by grace she is actually looking very scared. right? i thought. but that's right. so by grace, you're a teen mom. and you made headlines. helena may be

a because you actually got pregnant at the age of 14. can you tell me what happened? my parents had like a funeral of my grandmother in they'd goldlick back and forth to the village. but then when they found out that i had a boyfriend, it's when these that it asking me christians, they did just that having sex in all of it. then i told in the years i've had sex in, i didn't get my period for so long in all of it, what was going through your mind? okay, am i, was it the just actually time where was depressed in i was to amazed course at school. we're very weak, alto kind of thought about like having abortions in order for it. so the thought crossed your mind, but you locked it against it. how old was your boyfriend at the time? by the way? 21. nathan. 21. so you were a 14 year old dating a 21 year old. but you're back in school now. yeah, i'm right. you haven't been able to come back to school. you're working in a touch up at the moment here. so did you have to drop out immediately? you got pregnant or what happened when i went to school until i was 8 months

pregnant to room and then like my weather broke at school, your water broken, you ain school. yes. can you talk to me through that experience? i mean, that must have, i can't imagine where you in class where you are in the flu playing. we're taping me out. we like no changing glasses most. did you also have an older boyfriend? yeah, i was having an order boyfriend. he was like 25, but there is an i took all the boyfriend was like, there needs to support, he not all entries, those things. so your parents were not in a position to do this for you. i imagine. yes, but then the guy was even denying when i told him that i'm pregnant and those who as 8 months less at them, he except at the child. yet because we went for the any. let's come to immaculate was on this site. she's a senior research fellow. what did the figure say to his pregnancy is indeed a serious concern. lynn, i'm been government have what we call the a indication monitoring information systems. a significant number of the learners

that are not coming big. i actually do to pregnancy. so early in there you can seed around 40 percent, 40 percent langston's, while learners are not returning to school. wow. ok. i want to speak to where is he west yet? he is. why is the rate of teen pregnancy so high? a lot of kids are being approached by adults or bit maybe bigger boys here. so this is also to get a fresh fruit. well, what do you mean? a fresh fruit. fresh food is like a limb. say lisa, i'm proud of myself because i've been breaking maybe 15 gills or visions or something like that. so it's for us, it's a joke or maybe so it's a fun thing. oh ok. let's hear from frieda. what are some of the stories that you've heard from the people you're working with? most girls that usually, um, let me say fall pregnant or the stories that i've met are people from traditional aspects. and traditionally, you are taught to not sort of really refuse when a men approaches you, because this means older than you are mostly that other person is a perpetrator. it's either a puts you had $61.00 and

a child that's rape. and i personally feel like their bodies are really not fit at 14, your body's not for to k to term. you should be given the option of know if you want to have an a but not even if you want to, you shouldn't have an abortion because very much you're young. but isn't it what, what is the countries constitution? say about the legality or legality of abortions? here only under 3 difference if i'm speaking on the correction 4 conditions, yes, contextually under the law, abortion is legal. so it, but legal only under verify considered a very distinctive conditions outside of that it's criminalized. which means that if you do go for becto abortion you will be arrested when you will be fined 5000 or 5. he has imprisonment or both. so i'm guessing, immaculate that given what we've just heard, that the number of unsafe bushes is probably on the rise just as teen pregnancies are. yes we here are stories of women. oh young girls who blit them themselves almost to death. it is a, it is really our under stories, the issue of finding

a way to liberalize abortion in namibia is a metal witness. the urgency of all the attention. okay. that that, that, that we need to put, i'm curious to hear from simpson, what his views are. we have the ladies there who are saying that abortion should definitely be an option on the table, particularly for serious the young mothers. the chat is very clear on this. it forbids it. is there no middle ground whatsoever? i don't think we as human beings have the right ah, to take life, we should support the mother in terms of going through this process. okay, frida, you had something to say to me earlier, please go ahead. women should be given the choice because um some, some said we should lead women k to tim. but do we actually asked these women? what emotionally? what have you gone through king this baby to tell you as an important question, which i want to asked by grace the emotional toll that he takes on you to carry a baby when you're 14 and not really being ready to how was that emotionally what

frieda was talking about sometimes i felt like i don't wanna go to school in. yeah, i'll go to church when to be honestly currently since i give birth, i did no trico victory church because i felt like it was like a shame to the people. like, yeah, they'd me been lookin' a. we're flic, ice f seemed or tell me about you alexis, he gave us again my friends, if it should have been supportive in thee an offer to the hyatt in minnie. okay. immaculate. obviously not everybody will have the luxury of having their parents get a nanny for them, or the ability to even go back to school. so what are some of the long term consequences of teen pregnancies? totaled within the community is total dropout for majority of youngers because they get caught into that system where the partner just want nothing to do with the pregnancy. and parents also have a tendency to continue ostracizing them by putting punitive measures on this youngest. so school dropout is really for most girls, the,

the owner after that. and i also read that incidentally, people who are teen mothers are more likely to raise children who will themselves become teen perez. so let's now look at the solutions because this is a problem that is faced surely around the globe, but particularly in africa. what do we do so that and in the next 1020 years, we don't have another 1020000, my graces. i personally will say less, legalized abortion. but if you don't of what abortion it's fine. you could, you don't have to, but give other people the choice to make that work. all right, fantastic, immaculate, very quickly, please. the worst case scenarios where pregnancy takes place because of rape or incest. but then there are also cases way where we really need to bring big the joy, the fun, the beauty of sex back into the platform. so that like that, and along with the stigma ties bring it back with those youngsters who wants to engage sexually. can, can apply their minds and, and know that i know whatever vet is there to, to know. let's bring, okay,

are we just wrapping up this debate and i want to hear from the 2 ladies here. i would prefer that girls pick contraceptives. yeah. it all time. but sometimes in the contraceptives out of stock, that's even one thing always is not fair when you go full up. it's not vessel. thank you. i like that. like race. i'm that thing she'd fall pregnant. if you do in the 4th week trip pregnant, it's not the end of the world. hey i, i really like that. that's actually a really positive note to end on. it's not the end of the world if you do to become a t mother. but most importantly, going back to what people were see, education is key and making sure that these conversations are happening out in the open as usual. thank you so much for watching. ah, and many thanks. it is. and if you live in a community with similar challenges, what would be your solutions if you want to watch a longer version of the debate is up for you. and it's on our youtube channel, a d,

w, the 77 percent, and a make sure you comment on her that. and now we've heard about the 2 young months and their experiences and how about the young duds. and this reminds me personally of 2 friends whom i won't mention their names. now the day these 2 dudes received the news that they had impregnated their girlfriend. i'm telling you the un is uncertainty and fear was huge. how did they end up? that's a story for another day. for now are guards of mute reporters. sylvia a jumble caught up with a tin dud in nairobi, and here is what she learned. a lot has been said about teenage mothers, but there is a forgotten lot deemed as most of these young men i've sent by communities and feel neglected. my name is sylvia nairobi and on guys of live today for cousin, i'm with his is that taylor being thrown into fatherhood at the end of 17 with us at the high school see touch

when he was interested living. she was a grid below him. so he used to help her with her homework. their parents were used to sing them together, but you know, we are human being. so i had feelings she had feeling, but nobody has ever told each other whether they're in love or not. but it just came inside in like that. i just found myself in her, in a relationship. i was in his seat touch such as having sex. and she felt pret gland i was worried because, you know, she was a school girl, i was a schoolboy. so we were both climbing and it just affected i do care, sean. and what did you think? i did you think of a boy sean? actually that never came in my mind cause the way i've been raised. people do respect life in our community. so it was difficult for me to advise her to our

board shoot and go to the next small as in. what did you do next? okay, since i was afraid because her parents were harsh, it forced me to move from keyboard to another town whereby i had to go for missing for some few weeks. and some days before i came back after this story had been sorted out. but an almost done, he was arrested, it's illegal for children in kenya and get new sexual acts. however, such a 1st as involving maintenance are often handled differently to those involving adults under a system called conversion. the law usually a place to tunes who engage in consensual sex. the chief decided and advised me not to know to drop out of school. and he advised me to be attending to in this school, each and every day. so he called my parent who is my dad, and he told him that he is the one will be responsible for my child and the gun.

and that's where i had the freedom to go back to school for him. but despite that, he's that hasn't offered this unfortunately, did i'm was, has not been forced to take on the responsibility of an adult to support his new family. the girl is at the moment out of school and has already given birth to a baby. boy, i'm sometimes i have this much of a duck into mac, and since this walk, i'm doing it for survival cause for now i'm an independent boy and in fact i'm a dad. so i love my family, i love the girl. so i'm supposed to provide for them so i can just see that i can just get fitted cause they do depend on me. so i just must wake up in the morning, come for my asshole, and do all these for my survival. and because i love them and i must provide for them, the hostility from the family is baby's mother is still there,

but almost sees his kid to mend fences and to will there. well, i find that personally impressive and good luck to amazon is of family and we've got a couple of comments on this video in our facebook page and the prince. let me just check on that print. sir james from cumberland sees a great move, a step which even some a mature men can't still handle in our society today. and we have dinner rica, laconia from kennedy says, in my village, i think he must be 19 or 20 years old. we had 6 kids plus him and his wife, while dinner rica. that sounds like a lot of responsibility for boy. anybody let alone somebody that to young. now in some cases, teenage pregnancy runs hand in hand with ali marriage according to the united nations. there are currently about 650000000 women and garza around the world who are married before the age of 18. and if things don't change,

there will be 170000000 more. gus, married by 2030. now the un wants to eliminate child marriage completely, but it seems so there is still going to be a long way to go. now in namibia, almost one in 5 gas experiences a child marriage. we went to cover all region in north east and the media where the highest number of child marriages occur and caught up with a young woman who told us a story much. he called a village in north east and in a bmw the places home to heal them, a footer. she was raised by her grandma, along with 6 other children with her family struggling to make ends meet her grandma arranged for her to be married at just 16 into as much as it was such as of my grandmother when i came for august. holy mackerel, myself,

my grandmother said that there's a mental guy who came to me and then asked there which mean info and way. and my grandmother said the man came and then he asked you, he asked me handing to mary, as they are, why did you allow them into how, why did you allow them to build the house? without hearing from me, hilda married a man 14 years older than herself, but she's far from alone. according to the namibian government, almost 20 percent of golf namibia a forced into marriage, compared with only just of a 4 percent of boys. unsurprisingly, the marriage took a toll on her t life and education lim interest, or have her me. and then he never wanted me to be friends with my friends anymore. and then after school i guess have to be at home and then working for him all the time. it really felt like it's really difficult for me to do all those things to me it looked like it's a banishment of punishment. but even traditionalists and hilders village are

starting to acknowledge and slowly unravel because of schooler. i fades in a good child's marriage even though it's their school. but we can make means that they one sees in this cool. she can also come for a 1st period, initiation, then back to school. so attitudes are changing, but in her marriage, hilda was determined to make her own choices. however, to have children with me, but i even saw myself very young to have children at that age. and, and the wildly that i'd be out when i have to go to the clinic and get injected for feller planning mad gwinnett, when i came to the clinic, i had the mature that he should not know, but it with her husband, frustrated by her inability to get pregnant hilda's marriage became even more

strained. the men, nevada lake bed glen and their nightly i decided believed that thy is. he asked forsakes and then i said, no, i'm on my bed. and then they gave love to me. so i really got angry. i bet my things when i moved to my grandmother's house, the ill fated marriage caused hilda to fall behind in her education. but now at 21, she's back on track to finish secondary school. and while they embed and showed that a member of the men bad, bad giving dead jell leanplum that mendoza had barons that sent him to school and never implemented that beth and began somebody because he is better and sent him to school. hilda isn't sure if she wants to get married again or have children, but one thing's for sure. next time it will be her choice. me and this story illustrates how ali marriage can indeed disrupt her childhood. and

in my opinion, marriage should actually be a possible choice. and on a lighter nor to talking about marriage. her view not is a growing social media chris about wedding dances. it's almost like a competition between couples about who can lay down the best dance routines and well, the dance trend as also he to gund are. so let's see which moves are trending there . it's becoming more and more popular at wedding this days. after the chat ceremony and the vows the bride and groom entertained their guests with choreographed dance moves in uganda, the land behind the dance craze is alan will have what founder of jew. so why to dance creations? a local town for move your weight when a great and groom wanted attainment at a wedding, what they would usually do is seek out to hire traditional group or musician, nor an artist. so that is when the idea came to me the,

how about can we have more attainment form, a bride and groom on the entry and then teaches the couples trending down to move from around the continent. let's move one. what do you want? one that was a more into what is running no longer the turning move you have are you know them a piano, a little a young with a young man, a mother with a whole year and then only really wanted something plan and enjoyable class. i like music here for the dance aid high school . so we figured we would join them. no fun a call into la bridesmaids and group name

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