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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 that 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 nubians. and we're going to begin with by grace. she is actually looking very scared right now. but that's right. so by greece, you're a teen mom. and you made headlines, hey, namibia, because you actually got pregnant at the age of 14. i can imagine that there was a very scary experience for you as can you tell me what happened? my parents had like a funeral of my grandmother in the go like big and for the village. they didn't know that i had a boyfriend that time, but then when they found out that i had

a quick friend, it's when they started asking me christians, they did just that having sex in all of it and it's renee lake became open with them and then i told him that yes, i've had sex in, i didn't get my period for so long and all of it and they decided that we should go forty's. so when for the test in, in that came up positive, they were looking, they were made obviously, but the way of been accepting. yeah. in this the knowing that i hit, i hit the biggs is what kept me going. right. but what happened when you got the news when you knew for yourself that for sure, i don't have my period and it's very, very likely that i'm pregnant. what was going through your mind? okay. i was actually a time where i was depressed and i was doing my scores at school a very weak out kind of thought about like having abortions in all of it. but i had the thought of having an abortion. but i actually never like tried to maybe go to the show or maybe look for something going on the internet to fetch in all of it.

so so the thought crosses your mind, but you look it against old was your boyfriend at the time? by the way, he was 2121. so you are a 14 year old dating a 21 year. let me just come to emory here for a 2nd because she's also a teen mom. i'll be at the fact that she got pregnant when you were 17 right. did you also have an older boyfriend and is it normal in the media to have somebody who's significantly older than you as a boyfriend when you're teenager? yeah, i was in the event, he was like 25, but there isn't. i took all the equipment. was like, they need to support, you know, all 3 of those things. yeah. that's why. so what are some of the things that your boyfriend was providing for? you just explained to me, please don't address space that is for school. so your parents were not in a position to do this for you a imagine. yes. ok. and so you figure out that your pregnant is a scary for you when you find out what you thinking. i only found out when i was

full months because i was like, i'm still getting my period. and then like i was at school when my teacher what it was, a male teacher, he told me that my breast a beak in like he wanted me to that in. so i went with him to the hospital and then he called my parents by then my parents it. but i must move out of the house in goin, steve, my boyfriend, the one that made me pregnant. so i had to move by then the guy was in denying when i told him that i'm pregnant. yeah, he denied until the kids to us after i gave birth. and those who as 8 months us at them, he except at the child. yeah, because we went for the any. okay. and have your parents taken you back in since that time? yes. okay. let's come to immaculate who's on this site. she's a senior research fellow at the university of namibia and i just want to put things into context here. is what we're hearing a familiar tale here in a media or in the larger african context. what are the figure say,

a tennis pregnancy is indeed a serious concern. globally, then ambien government have what we call the a indication monitoring information systems. where annoyingly the schools must be able to indicate to what has happened to those learners who are not returning rates . a significant number of the learners that are not coming big are actually due to pregnancy. so early in there to concede around 40 percent 40 blanson's, while learners are not returning to school. wow. ok. i want to speak to where is he west, yet he is out. west is a traditional dancer. he would consider himself a traditionalist. you can see from his jewelry, but you also grew up in areas like this, you know, informal settlements and you're actually working with youth in these areas. why is the rate of teen pregnancy so high? a lot of kids are being approached by adults or bit maybe bigger boys. yeah. so this is also to get a fresh fruit. well, what do you mean a fresh fruit?

fresh fruit is like a limb. say these are guys also proud of themselves and also bring the car been amongst them self and say that i'm proud of myself because i've been making maybe 15 gills of visions or something like that. so it's for us, it's a joke or maybe so it's a font thing, but there's even cases god, children, a booked for marriage before they're even born. so i mean, i like that. so let me just explain that. so you will be married to a rich person for benefit. sometimes it means you are going to be a helping hand of admin services sometimes. so i understand it is going to like, i think, i think we all know that it's almost expected that the girl will sleep with this old man. yeah. but it's, it's, it's, it's almost like that it was happening like that. i feel like you're almost from man to sizing this, which i, i have a problem with. let's come back to my grace and i'm what a here. because i want to know the kind of sex education you received in school. i mean, by the time you're 14, what great is that? or is angry? 7th grade 7. so by this time, teachers have read it probably is it in the school curriculum? what are you taught?

here? we're talking about this 6 is that am she con demising of it in here? i didn't have malicious go assistant ext it and hip. yeah. oh, what about you, emory? when you are aware of, you know, sex education, the possibilities of getting an early pregnancy and the consequences of that from school. yes. do you think it was enough here here. so for you that it would have happened, even though it was a mistake, it was a mysterious. ok. so when you know you had the young girls yes saying it was a mistake, but then the consequence is a child's. by the way, this is freed. i'd introduce an activist here. what are some of the stories that you've heard from the people you're working with? most goals that usually um, let me say full pregnant or the series that i've made 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. and in the end,

this was an inside pregnant. this was an end up. even if they'd say that, no, i'm pregnant. they come to the elders. so what they did is they approached this or the feminine said no, if you are able to take care of this child for us related slight way i, you literally swiping this whole thing under the med because mostly that other person is a perpetrator. it's either a puts you had 6 and, and a child that's rape. but these things are not spoken about sexes. like, it's a bedroom grown up kind of thing. but did the grown ups are the ones that are approaching this young kids because hey, fresh meat is a virgin and you're going to boast about okay, we'll come back to the aspect of tradition in just a 2nd. but let me introduce them son for a 2nd here. ah, because you're a father of 4, and you identify as a born again christian. and so the question of having age appropriate conversations around sex and sexuality. but within the context of christianity, is that happening? you, you get a teenage curve also getting fallen pregnant in the church. but that does not

see the, the, they are not informed or rather they don't get the education from, from, from, from, from, from school. sex education only comes in some way around 1415 in schools as well, but i think somewhere it needs to start from class foods from home. parents need to, to, to, to, to be open about this kind of things to, to, to their daughters and say, no, what about their sons? yeah, to their sons as well, to their sons as well. teach them that these away to leave are morally a ride and to wait until one of the day that you will get married. okay, let me come to immaculate. oh i can you're itching, i yes. um. there is a notion that if that young boys are not implicated in tennis pregnancy, these are these that whole narrative by the, are they,

the occasional needs to deliberately target the young book. they need to be as much part of the solution as they are part of the problem. um, do you think that the education system is comprehensive enough when it comes to financing? okay. not, not really. not really. we have, we have looked at the we how, the extent to which the teachers are comfortable in talking about sex education to their, that the learners, a majority of them are not even prepared to take on the conversation. here are we, we need to step up a little in terms of the type of policy that we have in place. namibia has an adolescent friendly health policy. and the understanding there is that a 141516 year old should be able to go into a health facility, signed a q that is separate from the other 2 smith family planning is taken. and there should be a nurse who is well claimed, who will be able to give this youngster comprehensive health is not just the injection or the peel or the loop. okay,

it is not yet. let's come back to simpson then because it ties back to what you were saying earlier that the teachings for you as a christine is abstinence until marriage? don't you think that's a little misleading? i mean people having sex. why don't you just give them access to contra mainly than the health care that they need? yeah, it if they samson the something called a self control, the bible talks about self control. a young girl being approached by a man or an older man. she has the right to say no, it all deals with dignity at the end of the day. i'm just curious him son, because for you it seems that that message is constantly targeted at the goal. the goal should be resisting the goal should not fall into his hands. if one about the man, why can't he resist the urge to approach a younger girl? the way we as sparren's, nurture and teach our children from, from, from home, a place of vital role in terms of when he becomes

a 16 year old or 14 year old, to be able to control, to be able to respect that young lady that walks there industry to be able to see her as a sister to be able to see her as a mother, mother. and i mean, he's going, i think you and i could go back and forth on this because the truth is that hormonally, it is very normal to have sexual desires. but i do understand your points on our control. so on this side we have a new face, or you might not have seen from alien de la is a bit late, but she's here none the less an activist you've got something to say to me, you're dealing particularly with vulnerable groups. we're talking here commercial sex work as people from the l g, b to q i community. tell us what your experiences. i totally disagree with how you have to you bring in the narrative around control. knowing that we live in, in, in a society where, pardon amec are very much pervasive, pardon a mix that also make those choices on behalf of other people. and therefore also remove the agency of especially adolescent girls, young women and gender nonconforming people. so really we also need to talk about

the issues around consent here. let me, let me ask a question to you dealer because you missed the stories earlier from by grace who got pregnant when she was 14 and emory, who was 17. is it possible for them to have provided consent at that young age and for emory, who was depending financially entirely on her boyfriend? so according to our combating of rape act of 2000 in and of 2013, i think the, the law currently says if you're 14 years and younger, you cannot consent to 6 that steady leap. and if the person is, is, is 14 years and 3 years older that also you cannot consent. but again, we're talking about a dollar sense here. so there is no way that the person could have consented, even if they did say yes and isn't that because we're looking at power dynamics. so we meant we cannot have that, that conversation around consist consent without talking about the existing, pardon name. okay, great. all right, so i want to come back to these 2 ladies because i know one of the things that's associated with teen pregnancies, at least where i'm from kenya, is shame

a feeling like you did something completely wrong. did this, did it feel like that for you, because you stayed in school until you are 8 months pregnant here? yes. shame from the lake thinking, what will the people see? what will the teachers see? what will people legitimacy did or to affect you here? how did you deal with that because it's not an easy situation to be in a head my parents, laverne who encouraging not to worry about with other people. sit in my left schools teacher. yeah. so you had a support system around you. let me ask you a personal question. have you grown up in the church? yes i did. and did you feel like at that point you could go to your pastor or your youth leader and talk to them about what was going on? look really ashamed that maybe we would like some one that grew up in the church. are you? you've great. how can you fall pregnant in? yes. yeah. but you're back in school now. yeah, i'm all 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 i knew i went to school until i was 8 months pregnant. yeah. i, i mean, yeah, 8 months in then like my weather broke at school. you're water, brooklyn, 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 on the flew playing. we're updating. yeah, we're like no changing glasses most. yeah. in the, in the what the book. okay, so frida, let me come back to you because back to the conversation about shame and what simpson said earlier about what the expectations of the church, our, the expectations of culture are. don't you feel like the rog these girls were already in vulnerable situations of the little resources that they might help that they might have in terms of support. i personally feel like, or from personal experiences that i've, or with the people that i've had to deal with who got pregnant early ages. they were, most of them were sent from the church, but not because they were told that don't come to the church is just by the looks of it. and because of these things,

these are women fall into depression and sometimes it, it, it becomes so big that they don't go to school any more. or they just literally shut down and become depressed. 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 should have an abortion because very much a young. but isn't it? what, what are the countries constitution? say about the legality or legality of abortions? here only under 3 conditions, if i'm speaking under correction, 4 conditions, yes. contextually under the law, abortion is legal. so it, but legal only under very consider very distinctive conditions outside of that it's criminalized. which means that if you do go for back to abortion, you will be arrested when you would be fine, 5000 or 5 years imprisonment or both. now cut and coming to the cut and steps of abortion to obtain an abortion if under the case or for a point says you need to medical practitioners and those practitioners must be

performing in an amoeba state hospital. and then you need a 3rd doctor that would perform the abortion. so these 2 doctors, they only issue the certificate, not the performance itself. if it's under also a point says you need a certificate from a magistrate and you need to provide a good enough reason for why you did not. but for example, report r 8, a rape case. if you are a minor or under under age, you need either written consent from the minister of gender or from the children scott or from a parent or guardian. and then also abortion can only be performed in a state hospital. so i'm guessing, immaculate that given what we've just heard, that the number of unsafe abortions is probably on the rise just as teen pregnancies are. yes, and it is difficult to get access to statistics because of the illegality or the criminalization. in the event we, i'm at the university, we hear a lot of stories about an appeal that is in the market. the girls can access. we hear a stories of women. oh, young goes who blit them from themselves almost to death because these pills needs

to be drained in either 2 sequences or 3 sequences. good drink one to didn't after 3 busy drink another one in if you don't have the money for the next one, you are likely to, to, to just not survive it, it is a, it isn't really a horrendous door. is the issue of finding a way to liberalize abortion in namibia is a mental 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 i'll feed, i'll come back to in just a 2nd. we have the ladies there who are saying that abortion should definitely be an option on the table, particularly for seriously young mothers. the chat is very clear and is it forbids it. is there no middle ground whatsoever? i don't think there is a middle ground simply because i don't think we as human beings have the right ah, to take life. i mean, at the end of the day, we should support the mother in terms of going through this process of

giving the necessary or guidelines that she needs to get. and then if she's in school, get her back. um, when she's done giving birth, get her back to school so that at the end of the day she can be have a career and be a responsible mother. okay, frida, you had something to say to me. i knew please go ahead. i just wanted to add on to what miss immaculate said, the fact that as much as we want to not legalized abortion fully, it is happening. and as much as these people are buying a oh, legacy women, a bank tablets on the black market. so to say they are also doing a home remedies because they cannot afford these things. and these are things that are happening that lead to fatalities of women dying. and i personally feel like will it should be given the choice because um simpson said we should lead women k to tim. but do we actually asked these women? what emotionally?

what have you gone through carrying 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 frida was talking about, thing that really em maybe affected me mostly emotionally. westlake, um, comments from the people. maybe it so yeah, that would meet me. little going to school like a sometimes i felt like i don't wanna go to school and yeah, i'll go to church when to be honestly currently since i give birth, i did not really go back to church because i felt like it was like a shame to the people like yeah, they'd maybe look at nina, we're flic ice f seemed all here here. what are some of the comments that people used to say to you? like bay greece. they're in a sin when. how did you fall pregnant in yeah. yeah. and because also my parents

are like religious people, so people were like, oh your parents or religious people. how did that happen? like how did you fall pregnant people who called himself and christians, their child that hurt delayed their to their child is pregnant and yeah, yeah. wow. so there was shaming not just you, but also your parents. yes. tell me about your life as you give birth m. again, my friends have actually been supportive in d. m. offered to the hyatt in mini, so when i go to school, she takes care after school, she stays until maybe 5. so i can maybe raise to a few homeworks in here. yeah. ok, 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? to build within the community is total dropout. and we heard from these 2 young girls, pinellas that i hear that for, for both of them, there was a time that they're packed, as it actually said,

the law. i'm not part of it. and for, for majority of young girls, because they get caught into that system where the pac not just want nothing to do with the pregnancy. and parents also have a tendency to come to new ostracizing them by putting punitive measures on this youngest. so school dropout is really for most girls the the afternoon and i also read that incidentally, people who are teen mothers are more likely to reach 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. and i'm very curious to know from simpson because the church obviously has a very hardened position and abstinence is not gonna work. i'm sorry, just won't let us them together as a nation, as we see that we are and 90 percent christian nation, let us them together. and when these kind of things have been led, us not shown them, but support them. okay. and seek openly as we, i suppose. okay,

let's hear from feeder. what do we do? so that's um, in the next 1020 years we don't have another 1020000 by grace's, i personally say list legalized abortion. but huge can be for abortion. or you can be pro abortion, but not take part in it. it's a conversation we need to cater for everybody that needs because everybody needs to be happy in the end. but what about a rape victims? even these re, blake de la, mentioned earlier on these rig rape victims, need to get consent from 2 physicians and another 3rd doctor to actually just terminate this weaknesses. why can we just make it fi? because in the end, if you don't support a bush, it's fine, you could, you don't have to encourage people to having to push it. but give other people the choice to make that what are else fantastic. like there for with some solutions very quickly. the solution is the location of sex education, sex education, certainly anxious. if this is fantastic, immaculate, very quickly, please just been say it, but you know what? i always really belief that i am the worst case scenarios away. pregnancy it takes

place because of rape or incest. but then they're 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 i did these take my ties, bring it begs with those youngsters who wants to engage sexually. can, can apply their minds and, and know that i know what ever met is there to, to no, not bring, okay, are, we're just wrapping up this debate and i want to hear from the 2 ladies here. i'm sure there's some teen moms will be looking at you right now looking for advice or of young women who might be wanting to hear from you yet. i'm already gone out. prefer that goes to contraceptives. yeah. it all time. but sometimes the contraceptives out of stock. that's even one thing always is not they. when you go full up, it's not a soul. yeah, thank you. i like that. like race. even though your own, maybe your parent doesn't come to you to have like

a 6 conversation. maybe try to go to them in talk about it. and secondly, also try to use contraceptives in dom yeah, i'm not encouraged or missing a sheet for pregnant. but if you do in the full 3 great pregnant, it's not the end of the world 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 become a t mother. but most importantly, going back to what people will say, education is key and making sure that these conversations are happening out in the open as usual. thank you so much for watching. ah, thanks eat it for is very educative debate. i learned a lot. let me show you the 2. most importantly, thank you guys for watching. if you're looking for more of our content, just go check us out on youtube. facebook and instagram. it's always lovely to hear from you guys. i was time to go, but as always,

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