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i'm from number 2. i will continue to discuss with each episode today we're going to talk about the child's merit and evil, the, to the present in my country. most of them because one of the highest rates of child marriage in africa, in the countries of rural areas, about 35 percent of adults and skits marriage between the ages of $15.17 stone. we originally much of funding the captain of the district. we have chosen why, which is why the great epicene drug or i will be talking to you that she is 20 and was married at the age of 17. 50 on. do that for me to tell us about getting my dads 7 huge cleaning that i got married because i was pregnant. simply age based. my parents told me to do so because they wouldn't be able to support my son his 1st and then let me check the, i guess any school? no, i did. why did you quit school? because i did not have someone who would take care of my son and who do 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 the teenage goes, can also be exposed to many changes, possible abuse, domestic violence, sex which estimated diseases and risk pregnancy. in the province of monica, lynn was a cub provide show to 14 inches who are victims of such practices. joanna is one of them. she was forced to marry at 16 young. i really think that i could leave this marriage and i went through a lot of silence and i didn't know that the kind of help that card was available who they gave me. i didn't know how to report to you, 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 say that again and in 2019 was in big out load large on unions involving mine of and punishing adults for my children at the present time of up to 120, shopping coverage. you need to, i'm happy for the efforts that have been made in the fight against charles

marriages and a house one day to witness the end of this. and demi problem, in my dear countries, amelia, from a hotel reporting for the w scouts of media. you know, i think it's fair to say that anything that's shots, as the dreams of any young girl needs to end like now and any child marriage can be a serious problem. they do know that globally, every minute, some 28 girls under the age of 18 are forced to marry. now all do with this man is prevalent all over the world. africa is particularly affected by it. but how wide spread is it on the continent? let's take a closer look 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 live today 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 nothing but 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 the 15th. the state 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 consonant with high levels for child marriages among boys, especially across the west and central africa. here one in 25 young men were

1st married in childhood. i actually just saw this, but the sticks do not look good. so why is it so difficult to control, child, or under age mary? just to find out more, we had to a country which is at the crossroads of central south and on east africa. i'm talking about some of the, which is one of 12 countries in the region with the highest cases of child mileage . and the rates are even higher in the rural areas. my colleague fucked him a little. she travel took, i totally in rules. i'm the to find out the cost is i'm the solutions, the hello very, when do you by the way, but we are in control of the that'd be some to always drive away from the copy to a new socket. that'd be a, by the way, is one of 12 countries recording the most high prevalent cases in job market, some 29 percent rate icon for children being my read off for various reasons,

especially in the areas like well, we are in right now and i'm going to start off with susan, who walks with an a g o. and of course we are also very involved in sensitizing groceries communities talk 1st about the situation of child march. and so i'm here right now. what we found on the ground that he's the major close number one is the pulled at the levels. the pull, the 2 levels a so high that people just simply cannot afford to provide for the children. so once a girl child reach us puberty, they feel the best way is to get her married. really, i know, of course we have met, i'm bridget, who is the director of children development at the ministry. and so if you're just going to give us a brief overview of what the actual situation is in terms of numbers as well, and why child marriage is mostly predominant in terms of numbers, i would like to say that since 2015 when the whole a, when is broke out,

we will act 42 percent as a country and through the various interventions that we have done with communities with our partners. we have come down to $29.00. why not a he a was actually made of the age of 15 by the way. why not tell us? and what was the situation live for you? what left to a managed of that age gentlemen? gosh, why? because of paula to what to do. and did you want it all way? you forced? no wanted it. so you wanted to be married? yes. do you feel that you would still want to be might oh you would have wished a different situation for you at that age. i don't want to the mud anymore. why? why didn't you want to be made animals because i am too young to be married and those sticking out of the much but they'll toward his korean, you are 15. is that correct? the same age that vinyl good marriage at this age would you want to be mart? i would say no. because being a girl child, i believe,

to say there is more to life than getting married at the very young age. one of the reasons why i wouldn't want to get married is the hell to risk that i would face up in marriage and also a violence that i would face in marriage in terms of really the lows that to buy and job marriage in the country. you have your secretary, lucy also have you. of course somebody last what i did very much i liked and what is really the age for marriage here in december? okay, been low now as i speak to you under the children's code at a line when the code prohibits child marriage, it's customary and stuff to her. so that little 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 day these custom are you laws as government days, a pendant to that comes with that. uh, for example, under the uh, education act, we undertook to arrest a person who takes out

a child out of school to get them into marriage for 15 years. maxima that can go in for that's how i to then getting married. is it actually the philip? yes. or this intergenerational manages better stop. and usually you find in very urban setups, someone marries tutoring them out of to demand for extra to valerie. and this is the case where you find, i mean, these are living in poverty. so the ones to be helped with overdue, 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 child marriage because how is it making sense? it child getting married. if you wanted to add something, there's been instances where children, especially goes, do get mind willingly. so these happens when they have a boyfriend or she'll get, i did. so is it a been in school, especially those in boarding schools define thing vein school. meanwhile, they are the guys based a that of the boys to and it ends up being a marriage because parents don't once reach out to bring shame to the family. they

end up being more like it made, they end up cooking and cleaning and also been beaten by the manual permits them. um march at the end of the day they become more like is live better why they have the graves just so maybe they possibly have the kids. they have them that in those graves. yes. yes. i think that's one of the reasons is because most of the goals that die and does my just die out of do be jenna best buttons. so instead of them being put together some symmetry, the end up being would differently having that one. great. interesting. yes, you want to add some weight. yeah. another issue that don't comment on these that visual for the government, but the end of the country. so just go to see that as, as to did, we learn from what receipt. so he has a 5, i always my to 5 to 5, we mean, and then that then is the wife isn't for the 18 is what it means that even to, to do that to be true. so i think that is one problem that is with that reference to i think that is important. let me come to you might and bridget, because if children shouldn't, emulating what they see,

what i also realize is that these 2 been exposed to images and sermon is when day was pretty much the as early as nice even off of that is why in the to the it's called uh there's a particular and specific close referring to culture writes traditional writes as well as religious, right? because we've seen the damage that he does close to the community on one to enforce this by sprint sending the laws that provide that sort of associate economies fuck shows on. not in place really to prevent these children from getting mad or do you also agree to that? yes, i do because in most cases, even in of the areas, instead of having a library, we have a lot of bugs. they end up being, having leak are engaging as, as in drugs and so on. at the end of the day they end up being in the mountains and in homes, you know, it dies may have changed but or mine, since i've known it all. that's when the my, all right, let me just come to um and then bridget's. yeah, because they're making very valid points in terms of also school facilities because

these kids are supposed to be in school. nothing. that is just how accessible have you brought these educational facilities, but you have that. so this time schools are free. so we have they did funds to ensure that this child does a beautiful good money transport money to get them to school. so we have that program running. oh okay. okay. let me just a minute. i'm just going to come to my level quickly. you tell me, is the government's really opposed in its problem is that is made to children, especially to girls in the different conventions that they've signed and the policies that they have and i know they're not, they're not. yeah. so if they knew this, my dentist scenario where the government is labeling television discussing it, has to do with that that you guys could do, then that alone is going to do to make sure that people are and i can see the interest that the government hasn't the right to do would be no video of, of, of, of richard to deal with sensitization is key. but also as a association, if you're actually working towards disregard, do you feel getting much support from your partners and even government in driving much of resources to this go let initiative. yes, um,

i believe the government is doing the part and everybody has it has to be concerted efforts. so if traditional lead us would stand up with this problem voice against this and just send a weird because they'll word is low in, in, in india, in the 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 the, when a child is retrieved from it, from uh, from the marriage of costs. if she's not of, 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 employment programs. so we send those to a children to go to a place where they can apply us can if they can go get the diploma certificate we need. i don't know if i would say, yeah, i believe those incentives i child was taken away from. so we need this thing does after they've been retrieved from the marriage, dudley's chin, they need therapy. how to do it, the people that to some them after their marriage. so this then does a really need it. i know for like government has a lot to do apart from just as

a diving and putting up ro guns. do you think sensitization would be enough for the internet to duck with something done? if you want to cut down a tree and to prevent it from going back, you have to gauge it from from from that, from there? would you have to put it? so imagine this scenario where a boy knows to see todd married is really good to continue to take criminal offense and it's going to be practice and delivery did at any point. then what would the decision that is going to to, to complete, to indicate the issues of time or i just know that if i do speak, if it's going to be under by government that i've heard of it, that's very important discourse. what will you tell the effect goes, you're speaking to a fellow girls. now, what would you tell them? personally, i would say been a girl child. i believe you need to cation. if you get educated, you can become cool. you wants to be getting married at a very young age, isn't a good thing. i think of him just to to the child marriage supposed to be changed because it is something that's very serious to, to it's on every young person out there. i would say get educated and leave

a better life. well, we've heard it or it is a very serious problem that is happening in africa, especially here in zambia. i'm from what the kids have said from what you've heard from the children as well and to stay cool. that's this is not a happy situation. the government is doing so much, but there's so much more of that can be done because the situation is bad. and hopefully we can expect something better to come out of this. thank you so much for watching. see some of the time by the, remember you're going to watch the full version of the st debates and all youtube channel us. but it's clear that change is needed now, and a lot of the responsibility lies with governments in the thriving economies with a provision of basic needs, some families will not be desperate to marry off the young kids for financial benefits. like in the case of killed out in a full time, she was just 16 years old. when had grandmother might have off to me, mine 14 years has seen the. the marriage took

a huge tool and had teenage life and education. but it will take more than that to break that she's determined to take control of have future, much equal the village in north east, and that would be the places home to hold them a full time. she was raised by her grandma, along with 6 other children. with a family struggling to make ends meet her grandma arranged for her to be married at just 16. the pleasant metro if it was such as of my grandmother when i came for august, the holidays that throw my smells. my grandmother said that this a mental but who came to me and then asked their which ma'am, and for what the endway and the my grandmother said demand game. and then he asked you a asked me handing to married as sale. why do i love them into how, why do i love the men to build the house without getting it from me?

killed a married a man 14 years older than herself, but she saw from alone according to the namibian governments, almost 20 percent of goals and then it'd be a forced into marriage compared with only just of a 4 percent of boys. surprisingly the marriage took a toll on her teenage life and education, leland russell high for me, and then he never wanted me to be friends with my friends anymore. and then after school i just have to be at home and then working for him all the same. it's really felt like it's really difficult for me to do all of those things. for me, it looked like it's a punishment as a punishment that even traditional list. and so this will, they're just starting to acknowledge and slowly unravel because of hulu. i say it's not good. the child's marriage, even though it's that a school, but the we can make it means that the as well

as seas in the school. so you 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. he wanted to have children with me and my i even saw myself very young to have told them if that age in nevada, do they think they have, he has to go to the clinic and get interested for family plan by doing that or know him to the clinic, i have to make sure that he showed me some more, but it was a husband, frustrated by his inability to get pregnant. he'll his marriage became even more strained. simon, and let us take this land. and then nicely i decided to leave that guy, is he as full sex? and then i said, i'm on my bed. and then they gave 12 to me. so i live in court in green. i bets my things and i moved to my grandmother's house,

the ill fated marriage caused till the to fall behind in her education. but now at 21, she's back on track to finish secondary school. and one thing that i should remember is that meant that the giving that y'all didn't on that mendoza had deadlines that sent him to school and never had to manage that fence and begin somebody because he's better incentive disclose. 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. as it should be, everyone should be able to choose the life path now and decide the own future. now if that has signed game, let's go relieve some stress in been in from beaches to history and then biggest c t clicked on something for everyone. if you've never been that like me, then let's go to local slam artist compiled raji. i see takes us on the floor of

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