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a conversation around tina pregnancy and ali marriage and coming up with me to be bought or done. so always using up to demand respect for walking women we put off to teenage moms about whole, pregnancy changed their life. and we meet a young, the median woman who escaped charles 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. but are abraham may guy, she is a bummer or best artist using artistic expressions, to speak out against gender inequality. this outstanding dancer has tom ta footprints internationally, but home in bama, or she has intensified the call for respect to women. i

me, but my name is ibrahim my again that's for, i am an artist dancer, performer, create an interpreter directly. i am currently with fossil down the theater run by jimmy cooley, by the bought it is in her element. she's performing her solo on the streets of the home town, but michel entered she dramatize as women struggle for recognition and he brought diminution where men is coming near all, many dresses and i walk around in them all day. that doesn't mean i'm a whole so it's like, it doesn't mean that i'm fulfill and she go, or that i'm closing myself was to pick you up. no, no. it seems that i have principle has siblings that i respect you for 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 to get and is told chef she's. ready beautiful for me to throw a bell. 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. that agent wide be boss, has had similar experiences patronized for simply being a woman being taken for granted in her work. you did what times when i was just i wanted to give up if i wanted to drop everything off 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 late found one, and when women finally claimed higher and higher records 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 grass normal is enormous. i marlene society is still very much dominated by men, and there's a long way to go to reach equality. this is always changing and i think that as time goes by, this things will change. and those who don't understand that they'll be the ones who suffer. ah, suddenly change may be uncomfortable for some, but 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 it became money and o r st. deborah, tim headed to windows in namibia to find out more hello and welcome to another episode of the 7 to 7 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 that typically, low income countries are more likely to experience the problem of early pregnancy is a 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. 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 go like back and forth to the village. but then when they found out that i had a boyfriend, it's when they started 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. um i was it though, it just actually time where was depressed in i was doing 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 have no, i went to school until i was 8 months pregnant. and then like my what 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 al. we like no changing glasses most did. you also have an older boyfriend? yeah, i was having an older 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 ambien government have what we call the a, a vacation monitoring information systems. a significant number of the learners that are not coming big i actually due 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 fruit is like a limousine. lisa, i'm proud of myself because i've been breaking maybe 15 gills of 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 no. 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 does that countries constitution say about the legality or legality of abortions here? only under 3 difference. if i'm speaking under 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 fine, 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 tim pregnancies

are. yes, we hear a stories of women. oh young goes who blit them from 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. that urgent 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 and is 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 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, sometimes i felt like i don't wanna go to school in. yeah. 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, you give us a call. my friends have actually been supportive in the m offered to the hyatt in 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 pac not 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 10. $20000.00 by grace's, i personally will say less, legalized abortion. but if you don't have what abortion it's fine, you could, you don't have to. but give other people the choice to make that what? 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 bit is there to to know. and i think okay, are we're 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 fall spring creek 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

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 unease 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 the robbie. 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 ruby and, and god of live today, ferguson, 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 angry at 11. she was a grade below him. so he used to help her with her homework. their parents were used to sing them together. 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 tut such as having sex. and she felt pregnant. i was worried because, you know, she was a school girl, a was a schoolboy. so we were both climbing and it just affected i'd location. and what

did you think i did you think of abortion? actually that never came in my mind cause though i have been raised, people do respect life in our community. so it was difficult for me to advise her to our board route and go to the next move as in. what did you do next? okay, since i was afraid because her parents were harsh, it forced me to move from dabilla to another town whereby i had to go for missing for some few weeks. and some days before i came back after their story hadn't 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 filter involving maintenance are often handled differently to those involving adults under a system called conversion the low you shall yet please to tunes who engage in consensual sex. the chief decided and advice to me not to not drop out of school.

and he advised me to be attending to in their school each and every day. so he called my parent who is my dad. and he told him that he is there. one will be responsible for my child and the god. and that's where i had the freedom to go back to school for the name. but despite that, he's that hasn't offered the support to me did. alice has now been 1st to check 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. baby boy, i'm a sometimes have this much of a taxi to make and since this walk i'm doing it for survival cause for now i'm on in the bed and boy, and in fact my dad. so i love my family, i love the guy. 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 myself. i avoid them because i love them and i must provide for them. the hostility from different media is baby's mother is still there, but almost says his kid to mend fences and with that 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 prince a. 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 care know, 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 anybody, let alone somebody that 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 gaz 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 b as a mattress address such as of my grandmother when i came for august. holy mackerel, my smelled, my grandmother said that there's a mental guy who came to me and then as there, which mean info at benway. 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 th 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 punishment, a 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 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 i'm never going to do that. i'd be out, he has to go to the clinic and get injected for feller planning mad boy that we're

now going to live the clinic. i had the maturity should not know, but it with her husband, frustrated by her inability to get pregnant. hilda's marriage became even more strained. the men they let us make their glenn and then i had the way i decided to live. the die is here as forsakes. and then i said, no, i'm on my bed. and then they both loved 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 won't be in bed, and she would that a member of the men bad, bad giving dead gal 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. you 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 to can lay down the best dance routines and well, the dance trend as also he to gund our. 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 man behind the dance craze is allan will have what founder of jew. so why to dance creations? a local town for move your week. 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 teachers, the coupled trending dance move from around the continent. let's move on to 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 here and then we own a home with a young man about like a with a whole peer. i then only really wanted something plan and enjoyable class. i like music here for the

a down played high school. so we figured we would join them no fun a whole into our new bridesmaids and things. and it brings that balancing mood and clearly tells you weddings are becoming so creative these days. and these seem to be a big business. and that's are up for to day. you can see more for content or join in the conversations. and you know what to do to subscribe to our youtube channel or instagram, comment, or drop us a line via email to 77. d, w dot com. we are ending this week. sure. we've nigerian artist areas. believe it or not, she is on the 19th. and that is it from me, and it was the dispatcher. thank you for a

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