“When we look at statistics, men are mentioned many times as being perpetrators of violence and not necessarily part of the solution.”
Mr. Chisi says his group has what it calls a “husbands school,” where young and old men are taught how to be responsible fathers and how to take care of a family.
“When a young man is going into marriage, he is not told anything. What it means is that many young men have gone into marriages without necessarily knowing what to do in there.”
Marcel Chisi says Men for Gender Equality Now has about 50,000 members across Malawi. These men also work on other issues that many men believe should be worked on only by women, like HIV prevention, child-raising and women’s reproductive rights.
“What is the role of men in deciding how many children a woman would have in a family? Because normally some women have no say in their families.”
The problem of gender-based violence in Malawi is well reported. In 2006, Herbert Samuel cut off the arms of Marietta Samuel, his 33 year old former wife and the mother of three children. He was sentenced to 15 years in jail.
And recently, a local newspaper reported that police had arrested a man in central Malawi for cutting his wife’s sex organs after she would not have sex with him.
Even with legal action, problems like these continue. Marcel Chisi says this is why his group believes new methods must be used.
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