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we'll talk to some locals in capitalism. the apps about why child my age is prevalent. back then in the media, we get up close and personal with a girl for married young men to change. slam artist come mile, raji fixed. i don't need all of this town put in some things, whatever i, let's start with a report by our girls of new teen reporter. and i'm the lena she takes us to meet 2 young with them. beacons who had to give up on the dreams just because they got pregnant after getting married young. i'll let that sink in for a bit. else marriages, in many cases synonymous with domestic violence and risky pregnancies. in this case, that was on big 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 me to this episode. today we are going to talk about charles murray and evil that he's very prevalent in my country muslim because one of the highest rates of child 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 in much a funny timber district. we have child marriage in white equity and drug or i was talking to jews. she's 20 and was married at the age of 17 at the 10 us about getting married at 7 change when i got married because i was pregnant by my parent 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, no, 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. the teenage girls can also be exposed to many dangerous fossil abuse, domestic violence, sexual transmitted diseases, and risk pregnancy. in the province of monica, lemons, you can provide shelter for teenagers who are victims of such practices. joanna is one of them. she was forced to murray at 16 and 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 got was available. they gave me, 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 here at lemme speaker. in 2019 was a big outlawed my told unions involving mine of and punishing adults for my children at the present time of up to 12 use shoving. teenage, i'm happy for the efforts that have been made in the fight against child marriages

and the health one day to witness the end of this and demick problem in my dea country. i'm a molina from poto reporting 40 w gals of media. you know, i think it's fair to say that anything that shattered the dreams of any young girl nice to and like now and any child marriage can be a serious problem. did you know that globally? every minute, some 28 girls under the age of 18 are forced to marry. now, although this men, 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,

a life to day were married before the 18th birthday. every year, at least 12000000 girls are married before they reached the age of 18. that 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 for child marriages among boys, especially across west and central africa. here one in 25 young men were

1st married in childhood. now she 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, on east africa and talking about zambia, which is one of 12 countries in the region where the highest cases of child marriage and the rita, even higher in the rural areas my colleague far too mellow, she 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 card 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 my, 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 am. was actually married of 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? no, 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 the lad anymore. why? why didn't to want to remind animals because i am too young to been denied and i was taken out of the major by the authorities. korean you ah 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 go child, i believe,

to say there is more to life than getting married at the very young age. 0, one of the reasons why i wouldn't want to get married is there held to risk that i would face up 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 formatted, shia in zambia. okay. bear low now as i speak to you under the childrens 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 actually banking on their, these customer you laws as government days, a punitive that comes with that. for example, under the education act a, we are mandatory to arrests, 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 i 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 exchange of dowry. and this is the case where you find families are living in poverty. so they want to be helped out of poverty, so they let their 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. there's been instances where children, especially, goes to get married willingly. so these happens when they have a boyfriend or a sugar daddy thought is that have been in school, especially those in boarding schools. the pine thing, vain school men, all they are at the guy's place, a dad the boys live 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 at the end of the day, they become more like as live better. why they have the graves just so maybe if they're past they have the kids. they have them, they are indoors, grieve, yes, yes. i think that's an 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 dish of polygamy and polyandry the country so discovered to see that as, as 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 to do was to 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 reached puberty as early as 91112. and he been taught how to please a man and how to take care of a home is in that abusive enough. ah, that is why in the children's court are there is a particular and specific close referring to cultural 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 i saw 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 buzz. they end up being having leak, i engaging as, 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 off. that's when the might. all right, let me just come to am them bridget here 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 this educational facilities that you have? i saw this time, schools are free, so we updated yet and funds to ensure that this child as a bit of pocket money transport money to get them to school. so we have that program running. oh okay. okay, let me just demo this guy. i'm just going to come to milan. well, 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 they've enact. no, they're not. they're not. yeah, so if they knew this martinez no way out the government is laid when television discussing issues to do with her that you know, could be that, that alone is going to do to make sure that people and i, i can see the interest that the government has in their rights and or been of it of, of, of, of, of featured things. sensitization is key. but also as up associations i feel actually walking towards disregard. do you feel you're getting much support from

your partners and even government in driving more resources to this god lead initiative? yes, i believe government is doing the pot and everybody has it has to be concerted efforts. so if traditionally desk would stand up with a strong voice against this and just send it a weird because their word is law in india, in their chief domes, i believe we're going to see a lot of results. and 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 8 or if she feels she can, she can not handle school. how are we going to support that? we have what we call empowerment po cramps. so we send those to a children to go to a place where they can acquire skills. they can go get a diploma, a certificate we need, and i think i would say we had believed agent centers. her childhood was taken away from her. so we need these things as after that been retrieved from the marriage, that least change. they need therapy. how to deal with people that to sham them after their marriage saw this and as i really need,

and i know for like government has a lot to do about from just sensitizing and putting up programs. you do think sensitization would be enough for them in order to talk or something done if you and to cut down a tree and prevented from evergreen back f 2 good from from, from, from there it's you have to put it. so imagine a scenario where a boy knows to say, todd marriage is illegal to 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 todd marriages in order to fight to speak, the fed gonna be under by government. and moreover, that's very important. yes, chorus. what will you tell your fellow girls you are speaking to your fellow girls now, what would you tell them? i'm personally, i would say i'm been a girl child. i believe in education. if you get educated, you can become poor. you want to be getting married at a very young age, isn't a good thing. i think of in just a term. ah, child. marriage supposed to be changed because it is something that's very serious

. talk to it's on every young person out there. i would say get educated and live a better life. well, we've heard 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 as well. and the stakeholders, this is not a happy situation. the government is doing so much, but they're so much more that can be done because the situation is stay. and hopefully we can respect something better to come out of this. thank you so much for watching. see you some other day. bye bye. remember you can watch the full version of the street debates on youtube channel, but it's clear that change is needed now. and a lot of the responsibility lies with governments in thrive in economies with a provision of basic needs. some families would not be desperate to marry off the young kids for financial benefits. like in the case of held out a futon. she was just 16 years old when her grandmother married her off to the 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 out. she's determined to take control of have future, much equal village in north, east, namibia in the place at home to hold on a futon. 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. it was a major. it just edges off. my grandmother, when i came for august holidays, natural my spelled my grandmother say that this a mental but it who came to me and then asked them which man and for the way. and the mom grandmother said the man came and then he asked, you asked me, your hand in marriage asked, why did you allow them to her?

why did you allow the men to build a house without hearing it from me? hilda married a man 14 years older than herself, but she saw from alone, according to the 1000000 government, almost 20 percent of golden that may be 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. limb in russell, 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 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 while sees in the school, she can also come for a 5th period initiation then back to school. so attitude are changing. but in her marriage, tilda was determined to make her own choices. hello ended to her children with me, and i even saw myself very young to have children in nevada. do they have to go to the clinic and get injured for family planning magdalena? when i went to the clinic, i had to make sure that he showed nothing but it with her husband, frustrated by her inability to get pregnant hilda's marriage became even more strained. the man never spoke baghlan and denied the way i decided to leave. the guy is, he asked forsakes, and then i said, no, i'm on my bed. and then the day left 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 ensured that a member of the men that they're giving that tell them that mendoza had barons that sent him to school and never implemented that face and began somebody because he is better in st. 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. i, as it should be, everyone should be able to choose the a life partner and decide their own future. now, if that has thank him. let's go release some stress in been in from beaches to history, bonanza. biggest city co tunnel has something for everyone. i've,

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