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| Some of the people who attended the Girls back to school campaign. |
Early marriages has
been a centre of talks in many media houses and again in parliament
of Malawi but the fruits of all the meetings, gatherings and
discussions on the public pulpits did not materialize as the way how
it was planed by other civil society groups even the government
itself. Every group of citizens and individuals had their own views
on marriages according to the laws of Malawi, they tried all level
best to discuss the appropriate age for a girl to marry. Some people
said its good for a girl to marry at 16 years under a concern from
parents while others fall on 18 years. As Ovaha's Hut we did not see
the real results rather than people pocketing money after attending
these meetings. And no any girl has benefited on the talks, Ovaha's
Hut we talk and do, not like others who are good at preaching but not
practicing what they preach.
At our Ovahas's Hut
base in Muloza, Mulanje regardless of 16 or 18 for a girl to get married to
us its a very lame development and as for us every girl must be in
school and achieve what they want in life, many girls have dreams,
big dreams for that matter which needs to be interpreted and its only
education that can set them free. Some parents who have no parent
hood skills they force their girls to marry so that the girl can
bring some gifts to the parents and for now Ovaha's Hut is ready to
put pressure in all parents who force their girls to marry at a
tender age. In our community we have seen small girls dieing while
giving birth, contracting HIV/AIDS and some of them are suffering
from fistula, why? because they gave birth before their time was ripe
enough. All of this happens because the parents have educational
curses that they want to transfer to the young blood.
With the chief of our
village and parents we are on a campaign called Girls get back to
school, this task is to bring back our village girls to school
without counting on past mistakes, some of the girls have children
but they are still willing to start afresh in their studies, after
founding that the solution to poverty is not to get married but books
and ink thats the only weapon to destroy educational curse. We have
managed to motivated more than 15 girls to go back to school and we
will not stop until every single girl in our village has attended
school.
Once all our projects
are settled these girls will attend the skill centre which soon will
take its shape.
We like to urge you all
our friends and partners continue supporting us so that these dreams
should benefit more girls in our community, you can pay school fees
for some girls, buy uniform, buying books and anything you are
feeling that will make this development be successful, its our
responsibility to make our girls the leaders of tomorrow.
Ovaha's Hut will always
make sure that our community its a best place to stay. We have
started this project because we want to be the role model of our
community.
