the most is being done as a site, this cool process, the 77 percent. next on dw, we've got some hot tips for your bucket list, the magic corner check hot spot. and some great culture of the board has to boot w travels off. we go the hello bat. are you ready for another edition now? this 77 percent. what am i asking? of course. you're ready. thanks for joining the program for africa's youth majority . i. i'm eddie mike, a junior and you are welcome. the 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 the 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 a put to 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, the countries of rural areas, about 35 percent of adults and skits marriage between the ages of 15 and 17 stone, we originally much of funding in september 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 us about getting my dads 7 huge cleaning that i got married because i was pregnant. we age based. my parents told me to do so because they wouldn't be able to support my son through his 1st and then we'll 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 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 estimates 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 didn't 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 le mikka that again a new 2019, wasn't weeks out. load marshal and unions involving my moms and punishing adults for my children at the present time of up to 12 shopping. come a teenager, i'm happy for the efforts that have been made in the fight against charles margie's and house one day to witness the end of this endemic problem in my dear countries.

amelia, from a hotel reporting for dw scouts of maybe sub 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 space 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. i actually just saw this,

but the sticks do not look good. so why is it so difficult to control, child, or under age marriages? to find out more, we had to a country which is at the crossroads of central south and on east africa and talking about some of the which is one of 12 countries in the region with the highest cases of child marriage. and the rates are even higher in the rural areas. mike league fucked. him a little. she travel took a totally in rules on the to find out the causes and the solutions. the hello very windy by the way, but we are in control of the that'd be a 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 child marriages. some 29 percent, right? a con for children being married off for various reasons, especially in who them areas like, well, we are in right now,

and i'm going to start off with susan who walks with an angel. and of course, we are also very involved in sensitizing groceries. communities talk 1st about the situation of child march in some. yeah, right now, what we found on the ground that he's the major closed number one is to 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 puberty, they feel the best way is to get her married. really. and of course we have met a 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 uh through the various interventions that we have done with communities with our partners. we've 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? what was the situation live for you? what left to you a matter of that h didn't go to like because of paula 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 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 a 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 custom ali i'm stuck to her. so that little was so pretend over or those 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 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

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 manages better stop. and usually you find in very urban setups, someone marries to do an amount of to demand for extend to valerie. and this is the case where you find, i mean, these are living in poverty. so the ones 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's been, is this is where children, especially goes do get mind willingly. so these happens when they have a boyfriend. quite a feel 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 mice at the end of the day they become more like is live instead of 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 to add some weight. yeah. another issue that don't comment on these that visual for the government for the 100 the country. so just go to see that as us to good. 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 problem that we're, that reference to i think that is important. let me come to my, i'm 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 uh there's a particular and specific close roof having to culture rights traditional rights 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 gonna 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 known 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 is 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 will 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 which a good thing. oh, 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 guy, let him you should do it. 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, i guess 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, dudley's chin, 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 apart from just as the diving and putting up ro,

guns. do you think sensitization would be enough for the internet to duck with something done? if you had to cut down a tree and prevented somebody 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 it's, it's a 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 defects, going to be under the back of them into either of it. that's very important. yeah, of course. what would 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.