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up on the program, we'll talk to some locals in cut to lay 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 things and slam artist come out. raji 6000 needed all of these boom town, put on something, whatever 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 let that sink in for a bit. eli marriages are in many cases synonymous with domestic violence and risky pregnancies. in this case, there was, i'm big and government has been trying to tackle the situation. but is that enough?

let's find out. i hi, my name is anna melina. i'm from up to. i welcome you 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 are child marriage is why epicene rog good. i will be talking to you that she's 20 and was married at the age of 17, at the orange juice. tell 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 switched and we'll see if any school. no, i did. 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. after teenage girls can also be exposed to many dangerous fossil abuse, domestic violence, sexual transmitted diseases and risk pregnancy. in the province of monica, lynn was ca, 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 car was available to 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 and the association helped me. and i arrived here at lemme speaker in 2019 was a big outlaw. my told unions involving my mother and punishing adults for my children with the present time of up to 12 use job. and i'm happy for the efforts

that have been made in the fight against charles marriages and a health one day to witness the end of this endemic problem. in my dear countries, i'm elaina from poto reporting for w. maybe 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. 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, alive 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 none but double west and central africa have the highest prevalence of child marriage in the world . 4 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 you 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 capital lusaka zambia, by the way, is one of 12 countries recording the most high prevalent cases in char 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 grass. was communities talk to was about the situation of child marriage 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 um 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 any more. why, why didn't you want to be married animals because i am too young to denied and i was taken out of the mileage 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 a very young age. 0, one of the reasons why i wouldn't want to get married is there hell 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. ok? 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 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 arrests, a person who takes out a child out of school to get them into marriage for 15 years. max one that can go in for that. how i children getting married? is it actually their fellow b as or dis, intergenerational matter is that is happening usually you find in very urban set ups, someone marries children a matter of the older man for exchange of dowry. 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 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. so he's that of been in school, especially those in boarding schools. the pine thing, vain school men, all 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 better. why they have the graves just so maybe if they're past they have the kids. they have them, they are indoors, graveyards. yes. i think that's an one of the reasons because most of the goals that die in his 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 isn't 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 had 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's a particular and specific close referring to cultural rights, traditional rights as well as religious rights. because we've seen the damage that it has cost to the community and one to enforce this by strengthening the laws that provide that i thought 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 been having leak, i engaging as, as in drugs and so on. either end of the day they end up been in a minor, and in ons, you know, days may have changed, but i might have known in us 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 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 mila. 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 he knew this, ah martinez no way are the government is laid when television discussing issues to do with her that you know, could be within that alone is going to do to, to make sure that before and i can see the interest that they 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 think

actually walking towards this regard. 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, in, 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 built asian centers. her childhood was taken away from her. so we need these things as after they've 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, and i feel like government has a lot to do apart from just sensitizing and i'm putting up pro guns, you do thing sensitization would be enough for this in order to tackle something down if you and to cut down a tree and to prevent it from ever going back, you have to keep it from, from, from, from there it's, you have to uprooted. 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 to, to complete, you indicate the issues of 3rd marriage as we know that if i to speak the fed going to be 100 by government and over. that's very important. yes. korea. 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. talk 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 staple that 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 day. i remember you can watch the full version of the st debates on our youtube channel. but it's clear that change is needed now. and a lot of the responsibility lies when governments, in the thriving 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 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 he cool, a village in north, east namibia in the place at home to hilde. i'm a futon. 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 holiday natural, my spelled my grandmother say that this a mental guy 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 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 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. unsurprisingly, the marriage took a toll on her teenage life and education. limb in russell, have on me, and then he never wanted me to be friends with my friends anymore. and then after school i guess had 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 it means that while sees in this 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. helen did to have children with me, but i even saw myself very young to have children at that age. and rather do that. i have to go to the clinic and get injected for family planning magdalena. when i went to the clinic, i had to make sure that he should not know about it. with her husband, frustrated by her inability to get pregnant, hylas, marriage became even more strained. the men, they let us make their glenn and denied the way i decided to leave the guy is he asked for thanks. and then i said no,

i'm on my bed and then they gave 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 one thing bad insured that a member of the men that they're giving dead gal dental, that mendoza had barons that sent him to school and never implemented that this 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. i, as it should be, everyone should be able to choose the a life partner and decide their own future. now if that how sign came? let's go release some stress in been in from beaches to history and ends that

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