we'll talk to some locals in capitalism. be about why child my age is prevalent. sending a media, we get up close and personal with a girl for married young men to change. slam artist come mile raji fix. i don't need for office town concerning something whatever. let's start with a report by our girls of youth team reporter and angelina. she takes us to meet 2 young with 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. elly marriages, in many cases synonymous with domestic violence and risky pregnancies. in this case, there was, i'm 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 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 in town, we are right now in much a funny timber district. we are charged marriage is why i present drug or i was talking to jude. she's 20 and was married at the age of 17. at the do the tennis 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 has switched and we will speak chat, did you finish 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 up to teenage girls can also be exposed to many dangerous fossil abuse, domestic violence, sexual transmitted diseases, and risk pregnancy. in the province of monica was ca, provide shelter for teenagers who are victims of such practices. joanna is one of them. she was forced to murray at 16. i really think that i could leave this marriage. i went through a lot of violence and i didn't know that the kind of help that i caught 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 sicker in 2019 was a big outlawed my told unions involving mine of and punishing adults for my children with the present time of up to 12 use shoving genie. i'm happy for the efforts that have been made in the fight against charles marriages and the health one day to witness the end of this endemic problem in my dea country. i'm elaina from a quarter reporting foot e w. of maybe you know, i think it's fair to say that anything 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 man is as prevalent all over the world, 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's 28 girls every minute. in the least developed countries that none but w, 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 married us to find out more, we had to wear country, which is at the crossroads of central south than on east africa. and talking about zenobia, 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 low, she travel 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 luna zambia some too i was drive away from the capital 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 sensitize in groceries communities. talk to us 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 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, a 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 i 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 want it to be married? yes. do you feel that you would still want to be made or you would have wished a different situation for you at that age? i don't want the life anymore. why? why didn't to want to remind animals because i am too young to been lied 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 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 customer loss, but i'd 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 children's code act aligned when the code are prohibits child marriage, it's customer lee and statutory. so that law 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 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 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 diary. and this is the case where you find families 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 child marriage. because how is it making sense? a child getting married, you want to add something. there's been instances where children, especially, goes, do get married willingly. so these happens when they have a boyfriend or a sugar daddy, though, is that of been in school, especially those in boarding schools. the pines think main school men, all they are at the guy's place at the head of the boys plans. and it ends up being emerged because parents don't want the child to bring shame to 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 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, he went to outside with yet another issue that don't to comment on is that dish of polygamy and polyandry the country. so you discover to see that as, as children, we learned from what receipt. so here's a father, he's married to 5 to 5 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 is will address it. 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 expose 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 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 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 being in a mind, and in ons, you know, days may have changed, but a month it's, i've not in ours. 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 these educational facilities that you have? i saw this time schools are free, so we update it at 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 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 or the government is lave when television discussing issues to do with her that you know, could be within that alone is going to do to make sure that people 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 app associations are actually walking towards disregard. do you feel you're getting much support from your partners and even government in, 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 are 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 is 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 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 habilitation 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 will sham them after the marriage saw this and as i really need. and i, and i feel like government has a lot to do about from just sensitizing and putting up programs. you do thing sensitization would be enough for this in order to tackle something down. if you want to cut down a tree and prevented from evergreen back, you have to get it from from, from, from there it's you have to approve it. so imagine a scenario where a boy knows to say, todd 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 do to complete, you had to get the issues of toward marriage as we know that if i to speak to fred, gonna be under by government and more of it. that's very important. your score is 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 is very serious . talk to it's on every young person out there. i would say get educated and live a better life while we hide 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 under stakeholders. 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 dire and hopefully we can expect something better to come out of this. thank you so much for watching. see you some other day, 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 when governments in thrive in economies with a provision of basic needs. some families would not be desperate to marry of the young kids for financial benefits. like in the case of held up a futon. she was just 16 years old. when her grandmother married her off to a man 14 years had 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 holidays natural my spelled. my grandmother say that this a mental guy who came to me and then asked their 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 from me? hilda married a man 14 years older than herself, but she's far from alone. according to the min 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 lament us to 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 it's a punishment, a punishment. but even traditionalists and hilders village are starting to acknowledge and slowly unravel because of schooler, i fades not good. their child's marriage, even though it's their school, but we can make means that they one sees in this cool. she 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, how i needed to have children with me. and like i even saw myself very young to have children, edgar age in nevada. do they have he has to go to the clinic and get injected for feller planning magdalena. when i went to the clinic, i had to make sure that he should not know, but it with her husband, frustrated by her inability to get pregnant. hilders marriage became even more strained. the men they let us take their glenn and then now the way i decided to leave that guy is he asked for thanks. and then i said no, i'm on my bed. and then they gave flat to 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 being bad, and she would that a member of the men that they're giving that child into that men also 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 the our own future. now, if that has sunk him, let's go release some stress in been in from beaches to history and ends, that biggest city could tunnel as something for everyone. if you've never been there like me, then let's follow local slam artist come mild raji. as he takes us on a tour of his hometown mc, welcome and thank you for being with us. yeah, my name is camara. g. i'm a slam artist under public. i've been in wyoming. i'd like to introduce you to my city where i was born, where i grew up in this beautiful city is colquitt or new. welcome to 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