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coming up on the program. we'll talk through some of the goals and got the least idea about why child my age is privilege that finding a media, we get up close and personal with a girl was already on the calendar to change the slum optis compile raji takes on a full facebook account which has something, whatever that stopped, whatever reports by i'll go. so viewed, the teen report to atlanta. she takes us to meet 2 young, was on beacons who have to give up on yeah, dreams. just because they got pregnant after getting married young. i'll let that sinking for a bit. any marriages in many cases synonymous with domestic violence and risky pregnancies. in this case, the ones on beacon government has been trying to tackle the situation. but it's not enough. let's find out. hello hi. my name is elena. i'm

from number 2, i will continue to discuss with each episode. today we're going to talk about the child's marriage and evil that you say present in my country was. and 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 to him, 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 the comments and most about getting my dep 7 since cleaning that. i got married because i was pregnant with age, but as my parent told me to do so because they wouldn't be able to support my son through his 1st and then 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 who 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 the teenage goals can also be exposed to many changes, fossil abuse, domestic violence, sexual to estimate of diseases and risk pregnancy. in the presence of monica, len 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 the 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, an easy. 2019, wasn't big out. load large on unions involving my moms and punishing adults for my children at the present time of up to 12. 0, shopping kind of a teenager. i'm happy for the efforts that have been made the fight against the

child's mortgages and house one day to witness the end of this endemic problem. in my dia 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, forced to marry. now all will 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 continent with high levels for child marriages among boys, especially across the west and central africa. tier one in 25 young men were

1st married in childhood as he just saw this, but the sticks do not look good. so why is it so difficult to control, child, or under age mary? just and 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 like lead fucking below she travel took, i totally in rules. i'm the to find out the cost is i'm the solutions. the hello very windy by the way, but we are in control of the exam. 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 margin. some

29 percent rate con for children being married off for various reasons, especially in who them areas like where 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 insomnia. right now. what we found on the ground that he's the major close number one is the pull, the 2 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 here? um was actually made off at the age of 15. by the way, why not tell us? what was the situation live for you? what left to a managed of that age tension goes fine because of pull that to what to do in my or did you want it away? 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 the mud anymore. why? why didn't you want to be made animals because i am too young to be married and though 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? might god say no, because of 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 health risk that i would face up in marriage and also violence that i would face in marriage in terms of really the laws that to buy and job matters in the country. you have, you're expected to reload, so you also have your cost the money laws. what i did very much i liked and what is really the age for marriage here in december. okay. been know now as i speak to you under the children's code at a line when the code prohibits child marriage, it's customary and statutory. so that little was so pretend over all the laws that talk about child merrick. but you still have, you still have the communities that actually banking on day these customer you laws as government days, a penalty that comes with that. uh, for example, under the uh, education act we undertook to iris a person who takes out

a child out of school to get them into a marriage for 15 years maximum that can go in for that's how i to then getting married. is it actually the philip? yes, or this intergenerational matter does better stop. and usually you find in very urban setups, someone marries children, i'm tired of too old demand for extensive gallery. and this is the case where you find, i mean, these are living in poverty. so they want to be helped dr. forward do 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's about getting married, or do you want to add something there? it's been, is this is where children, especially goes do get mind willingly. so these happens when they have a boyfriend. quite sure. good. so is it a been in school, especially those in boarding schools. define thing very in school. meanwhile, the uh, the guys plays that of the boys to and it ends up being emerged because parents

don't want to 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 this. and my new problem is the march. at the end of the day they become more like is lives better why they have the graves just so maybe they possibly have the kids that have them that in those graves? yes. yes. i think that's one of the reason is because most of the goes, i die and does my does die out of do be the best balance. so instead of them being put together some symmetry, they end up being would differently having that one. great. interesting. yes, you want to do, i totally. yeah. then the other issue that don't comment on these that visual for the government for the end of the country. so just go to see that as a student we learn from what receipts. so he has, if i that he's my, if i, if i, if we mean, and then that then is the wife isn't for the 18 years what it means that even to, to do that to be true. so i think that there's one program that will address it. i think that is important. let me come to mind

a bridge. and because if children i 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 91112 and they've been taught how to please a mind and how to take care of a whole. isn't that abusive enough? uh, that is why in the to address quote, 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 it as close to the community. and one to enforce this by sprint sending the laws that provide that sort of associated going to make structures on not in place really to prevent these children from getting mad or do you also agree to that? yes i do because um, in most cases, even in other 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 dies may have changed, but uh, mine fixed i have no, it all starts with the might. all right,

let me just come to um and then bridget, 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's just how accessible have you brought these educational facilities, but you have that. so this time schools are free, so we updated 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 me and we'll quickly you tell me, is the government's really opposed and it's problem is that is made to children, especially to girls in the different conventions that they've signed. and the policies that they've and i know they're not, they're not. yeah. so if they knew this much in this scenario where the government is labeling television discussing it has to do with that, that you're just going to do that alone. he's going to want to make sure that people are and i can see the interest that the government hasn't. the right to end up being a video of, of, of, of fitted today to 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, 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 the word is low in, in, in india, india chief adams. 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 a child is retrieved from the, 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, pulled friends. so we send those to children to go to a place where they can apply a skills 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, that leads chain, they need therapy. how to do it, the people that to some of them after their marriage. so this then does

a really need that i know for like government has a lot to do about from just as the diving and putting up programs, do you think sensitization would be enough for the internet to duck with something done? if you had to cut down a tree and to prevent it from going back, you have to gauge from, from, from that, from there would you have to put it? so imagine this scenario where a boy knows to see todd married easily, goods it can take you to criminal offense and it's going to be practice and delivery did at any point. then what would the direction that is going to do to complete to indicate the issues of cutting, right? you know that if i did speak the defense going to be 100 by government and the think that's very important discourse. what will you tell the effect goes us speaking to a fellow girls. now, what would you tell them? um, 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 had a dog. 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 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 day by the remember you're going to watch the full version of the st debates on all 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 probation 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 head off to a man, 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, was a fat really struggling to make ends meet. so grandma arranged for her to be married at just 16. it was a mattress, it's a stitch as of my grandmother when i came for august holidays. that's all my smells . my grandmother say that there's a mentor who came to me and then as there, which ma'am and for what then boy. and then my grandmother said the man's game, and then he asked you a asked me handing to mary as to 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 fairly difficult for me to do all of those things. for me, it looked like it's a punishment, a punishment that even traditional lists and filled us with a 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 mother. 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 you should know something about it. with a husband, frustrated by his inability to get pregnant, he'll his marriage became even more strained. simon, and let us say the plan. 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 days left for 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 education. but now a 21. she's back on track to finish secondary school. and one thing that i should remember is the name that they're giving. that doesn't mean that mendoza had deadlines that sent him to school and never have 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. that means biggest

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