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up on the program. we'll talk to some low goals in cut to lead zambia about why child my age is prevalent. that then in the media, we get up close and personal with a girl was married young intended to change faith and slam artist come out. raji takes also needed all of his phone town kootenai, which has something for everyone that start with a report by our girls on mute. teen reporter angelina. she takes us to meet 2 young, was on beacons who had to give up on your dreams just because they got pregnant after getting married young. oh, let that sink in for a bit. eli marriages, in many cases synonymous with domestic violence and risky pregnancies. in this case, the muslim beacon government has been trying to tackle the situation. but is that enough? let's find out. i. hi,

my name is anna molina. i'm from up to i welcome you to this episode. today we are going to talk about charles murray and evil that is very prevalent in my country muslim because one of the highest rates of charles marriage in africa in the country, the rural areas, about 35 percent of a dollar since gets married between the ages of $15.17 we are right now, much a funny timber district we are charged. marriage is why epicene rog good. i was talking to jude. she's 20 and was married at the age of 17. at the do the 10 us about getting married at 7 change when i got married because i was pregnant by my parents told me to do so because they wouldn't be able to support my son who had switched. and we'll see if any school know why did you quit school? because i did not have someone who would take care of my son. and would you like to

study now go back to school. i'm not studying, but need to go back to school. i don't have someone to take care of my son. up to teenage girls can also be exposed to many dangerous fossil abuse, domestic violence, sexual transmitter, diseases, and risk pregnancy. in the province of monica limos, you can provide shelter for teenagers who are victims of such practices. joanna is one of them. she was forced to murray at 16. i really think that i could leave this marriage. i went through a lot of silence and i didn't know that the kind of help that i caught was available. i didn't know how to report it. so i suffered a lot. i don't know how it happened. god showed me the way in the association helped me, and i arrived at lemme see that in 2019 was a big outlawed murray told unions involving miners and punishing adults for my children with the present time of up to 12 use which i've been kind of a teenager,

i'm happy for the efforts that have been made in the fight against charles marriages and the health one day to witness the end of this endemic problem. my dear country, i'm elaina from a quarter reporting foot e w of media. you know, i think it's fair to say that any thing that shattered the dreams of any young girl nice to and like now an only child marriage can be a serious problem. these, you know, that globally, every minute, some 28 girls under the age of 18 are forced to marry. now, although this man, as is prevalent, all over the wild africa, is particularly affected by it. but how widespread is it on the continent? let's take a closer look. 9 child and forced marriage is a violation of human rights and a harmful practice. that disproportionately affects women and girls globally.

around 650000000 women and girls, alive to day were married before the 18th birthday. every year, at least 12000000 girls are married before they reach the age of 18. that's 28 girls every minute. in the least developed countries that number double west and central africa have the highest prevalence of child marriage in the world . for out of 10 girls, they are married before they turn 18 and one in 10 is married before their 15th birthday. in eastern and southern africa, around one 3rd of the regions, young women were married before the age of 18. the practice occurs among boys as well. africa is also a continent with high levels, but child marriages among boys, especially across west and central africa. here one in 25 young men were

1st married in childhood as he just saw, the statistics do not look good. so why is it so difficult to control, child, or under age marriages? to find out more, we had to wear country which is at the crossroads of central south in an east africa and talking about zambia, which is one of 12 countries in the region where the highest cases of child marriage and the rates are even higher in the rural areas. my colleague fatima lucy trouble took, i totally in rules omnia to find out the causes and the solutions ah, hello very windy by the way, but we are in a toilet in rural zambia. some to always drive away from the copy to lusaka zambia by the way is one of 12 countries recording the most high prevalent cases in child

marriages. some 29 percent rate. a con for children. been married off for various reasons, especially in rural areas, like where we are in right now. and i'm going to start off with susan walks with an n g o. and of course they're also very involved in sensitizing grassroots communities towards the by the situation of child march in zambia. right now, what we have found on the ground that is the major cause number one is the poverty levels. the poverty levels are so high that people just simply cannot afford to provide for their children. so once a girl child reaches puberty, they feel the best way is to get her married. really and of course, are we have madame bridget, who is the director of our children development at the ministry. and so if you'll just going to give us a brief overview of what the actual situation is in terms of numbers as well. and why child marriage? eyes mostly predominant in terms of numbers, i would like to say that since 2015 when the whole a, when is broke out,

we were at 42 percent as a country and, and through their various interventions that we have done with communities with our partners. we have come down to $29.00. i not a here. i was actually married off at the age of 15. by the way, vine. i tell us. what was the situation life for you? what led to your marriage at that age? denton got mine because of poverty. what to do in my vote? did you want it away? you forced? i wanted it. so you wanted to be married? yes. do you feel that you would steal? wouldn't to be made or you would have wished a different situation for you at that age. i don't want to deny it any more. why, why didn't you want to be made animals because i am too young to be light and i was taken out of the major by the authorities. korean, you are 15. is that correct? the same age that vanna got married at this age, would you want to be married? i would say no. because i've been

a girl child. i believe to say there is more to life than getting married at a very young age. are one of the reasons why i wouldn't want to get married. is there health to risk that i would face ab in marriage and also violence that i would face in marriage in terms of really the laws at that to buy and child marriage in the country? you have your statutory laws. you also have your customary laws, but at a very much i liked and what is really the age for marriage here in zambia? okay, bear low now as i speak to you under the children's code act aligned, when the code prohibits child marriage, it's customer lee and statutory. so that law was so pretend over all the laws that talk about child marriage. but you still have, you still have the communities that are actually banking on their these customer you laws, i'd say government days, a punitive that comes with that. for example, under the education act a, we are mandated to arrest a person who takes out

a child out of school to get them into marriage for 15 years, maxwell, they can go in for that. how children getting married. is it actually their philippines, or this intergenerational matter is that is happening usually you find in very urban setups, someone marries children, america, of the older man for eccentric diary. and this is the case where you find families are living in poverty. so they went to be helped out of poverty, so they let the children go in order to reduce the number of feeding and also to just get some income from that. and i think where we need to start is actually change the term from tout marriage. because how is it making sense? a child getting married? you want to add something lesbian is. this is where children, especially goes, do get married willingly. so these happens when they have a boyfriend, or she'll godaddy, though, is that of been in school, especially those in boarding schools that bind things vain school men while they are at the guy's place, at the head of the boys place. and it ends up being emerged because parents don't

want the child to bring shame to um the, the family. they end up being more like a made. they end up cooking cleaning and also been beaten by this a man who promised them might i the end of the day they become more like his live, but why they have the glimpse just so maybe if they paused they have the kids, they have them, they are indoors grieve? yes. yes, i think that's a one of the reasons because most of the goals that die in this mind just die out of g b, v. gender best violence. so instead of them being put together, send symmetry, they end up being put differently. having their own gave interesting yes, you want to answer yet. another issue that don't to comment on is that nisha, polygamy polyandry in the country. so we discovered to see that as us children we learned from what receipt. so here's a father, he's married to $5.00 to $5.00 women and then did it dennis, the wife is probably 18 years what it means that even the tug who christa that to be true. so i think that is one problem that this will address and i think that is

important. lemme come to you, madame bridget, because if children i shall emulating what they see, what i also realize is that these children are exposed to images and ceremonies when they wish puberty as early as 91112, and be been taught how to please a man and how to take care of a home is in abusive enough? oh, that is why in the children's court are there is a particular and specific close referring to culture rights, traditional rights as well as religious rights. because we've seen the damage that it as close to the community and one to enforce this by strengthening the laws that provide that. so the socio economic structures are not in place really to prevent these children from getting married. do you also agree to that? yes i do because in most cases, even in other areas, is that of having a library, we have a lot of but they end up been having like i engaging this as in drugs and so on. either end of the day they end up being in a mind, and in ons, you know, days may have changed, but i might have known it all. that's when the might. all right,

let me just come to am them bridge a chair because they're making very valid points in terms of also school facilities because this kids are supposed to be in school and not in manages how accessible have you brought these educational facilities that you have the i so this time schools are free, so we update it and plans to ensure that this child has a bit of pocket money transport money to get them to school. so we have that program running. yeah. okay. okay, let me just demo this come. i'm just going to come to mila quickly. you tell me, is, is the government really uphold in? it's promised that he has made to children, especially to girls in the different conventions that they've signed. and the policies that live in act. no, they're not. they're not. yeah, so if the news is medina scenario we are, the government is lave when television discussing issues to do with her. the tennis court building that alone is going to do to make sure that people and i can see the interest that the government has in their rights and will be no video of, of, of, of featured things. sensitization is key. but also as an association, i think actually walking towards disregard. do you feel you're getting much support

from your partners and even government in driving more to resources to this god lead initiative? yes, i believe government is doing their pot and everybody has it has to be concerted effort. so if traditional liter would stand up with a strong voice against this and just send it away because their word is law in india in their chief domes, i believe we are going to see a lot of resulting one of the things that we've come to realize is that when the child is retrieved from, from, from the marriage. of course, if she's not of school going age or if she feels she can, she can not handle school. how are we going to support that? we have what we call empowerment programs. so we send those to her children to go to a place where they can acquire skills. they can go get a diploma, a certificate we need. i don't think i would say rehabilitation centers. i childhood was taken away from her. so we need this thing to, is after that been retrieved from the marriage, that least change. they need therapy. how to deal with people that to sham them

after the marriage saw this and as i really need. and i can, i feel like government has a lot to do apart from just sensitizing and putting up pro guns. you do thing sensitization would be enough for this in order to tackle something done. if you had to cut down a tree and prevented from ever going back, you have to keep it from from, from, from there it's you have top rated. so imagine a scenario where a boy knows to say, sod, marriage is illegal, it's a, it's a, it's, it's a criminal offense, and it shouldn't be practice and de larry did at any point. then what would of a generation that is going to do to, to complete, you indicate the issues of 3rd marriage as we notified to speak, the fed going to be 100 by government and over. that's very important. yes, corey, what would you tell your fellow got us speaking to your fellow girls now? what would you tell them? personally, i would say been a girl child. i believe in education. if you get educated, you can become who you want to be getting married at a very young age isn't a good thing. i think have been just a term child marriage supposed to be changed because it is something that's very

serious took to it's and every young person out there, i would say, get a dedicated and live a better life while we hired it all, it is a very serious problem that is happening in africa, especially here in zambia. and from what the kids have said from what you've heard from the children and what and the stakeholders. this is not a happy situation. the government is doing so much, but there's so much more that can be done because the situation is stay and hopefully we can expect something better to come out of this. thank you so much for watching. see some other to the remember you can watch the full version of the st debates on youtube channel, but it's clear that change is needed now. and a lot of the responsibility lies with governments in the thriving economies with a provisional basic needs. some families would not be desperate to marry off the young kids for financial benefits. like in the case of held up my food. she was

just 16 years old. when her grandmother married her off to a man, 14 years has senior. the marriage took a huge tool on her teenage life and education. but it will take more than that to break her. she's determined to take control of have future, much equal village in north eastern and libya in the place at home to hold on a photo. she was raised by her grandma, along with 6 other children in with her family, struggling to make ends meet her. grandma arranged for her to be married at just 16 . it was a major as such as of my grandmother when i came for august holidays. natural my spelled. my grandmother said that this a mental guy who came to me and then asked there which man and for the way. and the mom grandmother said the man came and then he asked you a asked me your hand into marriage, asked, why did you allow them into how,

why did you allow the men to build a house without hearing it for me? hilda married a man 14 years older than herself, but she's far from alone. according to the maybe in government, almost 20 percent of golden. that may be a forced into marriage, compared with only just of a 4 percent of boys. i'm surprisingly, the marriage took a toll on her teenage life and education limit. i still 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 punishment a punishment. but even traditionalists and hilton 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 while sees in this school, she can also come for a 5th period initiation, then back to school. so attitudes are changing. but in her marriage, hilda was determined to make her own choices. hello ended to her children with me, and i even feel myself very young to have children at age. and he has to go to the clinic and get injured for family planning. my billing that when i went to the clinic, i had to make sure that she knows more about it. with her husband, frustrated by her inability to get pregnant. hilders marriage became even more strained. the men, they let us take a plan and then night, the way i decided fully the guy is he asked forsakes and then i said, i'm on my bed. and then they,

they slept 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 the, remember the men that they're giving delta dental, that men also had parents that sent him to school and never intell manage. that person began somebody because his parents sent him to school. hilda isn't sure if she wants to get married again or have children. but one thing for sure. next time it will be her choice. as it should be, everyone should be able to choose the life partner and decide the own future. now, if that have found game, let's go relieve some stress in been in from beaches to history and ends the

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