“She will be the first to leave school. She will be the first to not eat. They are painfully aware of this. They are very savvy and they understand that their future is linked to their family’s economic future. They also understand something very interesting – that their parents are caught in a very difficult decision-making tree. They see that violence is very predominant, and they see the risks that they face. And they understand that their parents are trying to protect them. But they see that that same protection turns into exactly what prohibits them from progress.”
World YWCA General Secretary Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda said that violence is a major obstacle to women and girls.
“When we have freedom of violence in our homes, in our communities, in our countries, we have opportunities to walk to the river. We have opportunities to walk to school. We have opportunities to be,” she said.
But Gumbonzvanda added that girls want and deserve much more.
“Our girls,” she said, “are asking for social and economic empowerment. Education, education, education and education.”
However, U.N. Special Advisor Dr. Nafis Sadik said when it comes to education, what girls want and what they get are often two different things.
“The fact that they can go to school is the decision of the family. And the family still in many parts of our world, especially in the rural areas and even some urban areas, preference is given to boys for the reason that they are the breadwinners.”
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