COMMUNITY BUILDING
WHEN WE EMPOWER GIRLS,OUR COMMUNITY BENEFITS.
Girls have no status, no protection and no prospects in many families and communities – and this is simply the way things are. Inequality is so entrenched that it isn’t even questioned."
As a community we need to understand that when we empower girls, everybody benefits. Girls who are educated, healthy and free can transform their communities and pass on the benefits to their children, and to their children’s children.
Yet the reality is that women are still treated as second-class citizens of this world; girls are almost completely ignored. Girls have no status, no protection and no prospects in many families and communities – and this is simply the way things are. Inequality is so entrenched that it isn’t even questioned.
INVESTING IN GIRLS MEANS ENDING CHILD MARRIAGE
Girls who marry before they turn 18 are more likely to drop out of school, live in poverty, suffer domestic violence, become pregnant before they are ready, and die in childbirth. Marrying too young is a sure way to perpetuate poverty and inequality in a girl’s community.
Child marriage is more than a harmful practice that should be tackled in its own right; it is an entry point to all these other issues. If we want girls to stay in school, to be safe and healthy, to earn their own income and invest back into their families and communities, we must end child marriage.
The girl child is as important as the boy child in our community. Equal rights should be given to each gender. Thats my opinion.
Lovely write up DC, is an inspiration to our community.
Preach it captain
This awareness cannot be underestimated. These kinds of occurrence often make me sometimes see reasons with the like Chimamanda adichie who are feminists.
Chimamanda quest for the equality of sexes through her writing, i read one of her amazing book title "we should all be feminist"
True although that babe got some extreme views on that topic
I like it when men discuss important stuff like girl education and empowerment, especially in Africa, where such is frowned on in some places. Thanks for once again bringing issues that are worth contemplating on on steemit :) I will upvote this :)
Am glad you can relate to this sir, issues like this should be put right in a community
The female child is the hope of our mother hood, the first teachers of our leaders
Its not RIGHT to take a person's RIGHT away... Africa and the world at large needs to RIGHTLY understand this... If these people's RIGHTS are put into consideration; thry will be RIGHTLY treated.
Really deep. We should all join hands in fight of child marriage.
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