Government is happy with the role which cooperating partners are playing in the area of menstrual hygiene management on young girls in Zambia.
Minister of Gender and Child Development Nkandu Luo said menstrual hygiene standards were crucial for young girls and women during their menstruation hence the need for increased education for the growing girls.
Professor Luo said this in a speech read for her by her Permanent Secretary Daisy Ng’ambi during the official global celebration of menstrual hygiene management on young girls in schools across the country.
The theme of the global menstrual hygiene management day was, “Let us act together to support menstrual education on the growing young girls”.
And speaking at the same occasion, United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) WASH Specialist Lacuuum Verstraete said 10 percent of girls in Africa miss classes due to menstrual factor.
Mr. Verstraete said many young girls lack access to information on how best to look after themselves during their monthly period.
He said UNICEF was determined to work with the Zambian government to address this vital issue affecting young girls.
I thot women would help girls who become pregnant by giving them leav imediately they are found pregnant. No woman works well when pregnant but why forcing girls to be in schools for 6 months in unhealthy environment. let them go home immediately they are pregnant and come back after giving birth
What do they teach the girls at the so called “Sex Camps”?
By Emma Batha
CASABLANCA, May 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Girls as young as eight in Mozambique and Zambia are forced to go to camps where they are shown how to please a man in bed in order to prepare them for married life, activists said at an international conference on ending child marriage.
These sexual initiations begin once menstruation starts and sometimes involve sticks being inserted inside the girls, Persilia Muianga of international aid agency World Vision said.
She added that some mothers force young daughters to sleep with a man in the belief this can bring on menstruation.
Anglican priest Jackson Jones Katete said initiations in Zambia happen among girls between the ages of eight and 13, and…
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By Emma Batha
CASABLANCA, May 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
and may involve girls being cut by women for not performing sexual movements correctly.
“You … pay these (elderly) women to do this torturing to your child,” he said, adding that men do not want to marry girls unless they have been initiated.
“Immediately the girls come out of the camp, they are saying … you are now ready for sex. And then the men come … and then they begin to do the betrothals.”
The training, which can last a week and is shrouded in secrecy, also teaches girls about hygiene, domestic duties and how to conduct themselves in the community, Muianga said, adding that community leaders fine parents if they do not take their daughters to the initiations.
This is a pointless waste of resources! Is menstrual hygiene a problem among girls in Zambia? Where is he evidence? STI is a problem, tackle this first!
Oh menstruation if not we’ll supported prevents girls from being in class at least 4-5 days in a month and 45 in a school year which is close to one full school term. That is the problem. Some women with serious period pains also lose work hours. Girls just like boys have a right to education. In some rural communities some girls cannot even afford pants – that is the problem!
David Lemelin · Top Commenter · Ottawa, Ontario
Ah. Organized religion. Highlight and greatest achievement of Iron Age man. Enslave women (animals, children, and the whole of the natural world which was created JUST for you to defile…), dehumanize them, steal their reproductive rights and abuse, use and discard at will… All under the permissive eye of “God”. The single most pustulent, rotten, abused and poisonous creation of man.
Want to save the world? Kill religion and it’s false deities advocating hate, inequality and murder around the world for millennia. If “God” was going to bring about peace equality and happiness for all, don’t you think we might have seen SOME results by now?
Some days people, you JUST need to WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE.
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Top Commenter · Coastal Georgia Community College
Sounds like a Republican utopia if you ask me. They seemed obsessed with controlling women and their private parts.
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Original post by- Yumin Tchen · Top Commenter
These arranged marriages are just another form of child sex trafficking, with the parents getting bride prices.
And as the article states, there is a high chance these young girls will get fistulas after this early pregnancy, and are then thrown away when they can’t control their elimination.
The lack of respect for females is the reason these countries are so dirt poor.. the men have no one to balance their egotism.
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Original post by- Daniel P. Luxembourg, Luxembourg
I note a similar practice was in place in Liberia when i lived there 1967-69. They referred to the camp as the Kricker Bush ,during which they performed clitoris removal. Men who wanted a wife then paid the girl’s family a fee which varied by tribe $60 – $120. Often it was the girls that ran away avoiding the Kricker Bush that became prostitutes.
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Original post. by- Rich Rogge · Top Commenter · Overland Park, Kansas
Twin Peaks recently opened restaurants in Maputo & Lusaka. At those franchises, waitresses are fired when they begin menstruation.
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I think Lui has nothing to talk about. What is this? This actually makes news in Zambia?