Hello great steemians and members of steem kids, i am very happy to take part in this interesting contest.
Firstly i am in Cameroon, Southwest region and Buea to be precise.

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child abuse is a common phenomenon found in Cameroon and in our various locality. In this part of the country were little laws are put in place to guide the rights of children, anything can happen. Little intervention is made even when this issues get to higher authorities as it will always be plead to be resolved at home.
When this issues return home the suffering are bound to increase.
How can a child in this locality bear the gods to report his/ her abuser to an authority?
There are many different forms or types of child abuse such as physical and psychological but today i will be talking on the most prevalent which is physical abuse on children.

the prevalent child abuse in my locality

Physical abuse on children
Physically children can be abused by physical assualts, punishment, .

physical assualts
This is physical inflicting pain on a child, it can give injuries, wounds or just bruises and like its commonly code the bruises you inflict may go but the memories remain for a lifetime.

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Punishment
This is very common as the children will be asked to do what they cant do or they were normally not supposed to do. These may be done to reduce the number of physical beatings. Example a child may be send to fetch water like 10times a day for kilometers walk, knowing that its a stressful exercise. Or asking a child to carry a load heavier than him or her.

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Another example can be seen by sending a child to hawk outside late at night while the abuser is sleeping.
Hawking is a normal way of survival in our part but children hawking late at night is wrong.

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who is mostly affected
In these case botb boys and girls stand an equal chance to recieve those forms of child abuse listed above.

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Effects of child abuse
The effect are enormous,

• A child hawking all night will normally not be attending school and even if they are, they wont perform well.
• for a child receiving physical assault, that child will likely be very dormant and not bright at all, low self esteem and rejection is what he or she may battle with.
• A child receiving hardwork can normally not excell in academic even if he or she is bright, because they will hardly have time to study.

prevention of child abuse.

These abuses can be avoided by knowing their cause or the abusers. Most at times these children cant preven it as it is mostly not their fault.
These can only be prevented by sanctioning those involved in the act.

With a said above, we can see that the most prevalent of child abuse in my locality are physical assualts and punishments. these abuse can be avoided by sanctions from authorities to those involved.

I am inviting @graciella @praiz9 @ngamd to this contest.
Thanks for reading
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