Ep 1: Chief Kachindamoto | COURAGE TO QUESTION VR

as a gay my bath was bright I had access to an education I had freedom I did not know that I was lagging I had a future I am senior chief Tennessee trader Casa de modo I'm the last one of the family over 12 seven brothers fresh sisters and my brothers and sisters always teasing me but my father told them that she don't diss her because one day should be achieved I left my village when my father sent me to boarding school after my school I went to wake at a college I loved seeing young city women who studies in poverty and pursue Callias and achieved financial independence after my father passed away the royal family came to Zumba to ask me and go home to become a chief then I said why why me I am a woman and you are Chaya you said a woman cannot be a chief so why now then they said that's why we choose you peoples you are good with people so we want you to go home to achieve to them I returned back to my village still unsure if I wanted to take all this responsibility as I was passing by a playground I saw some girls who were watching soccer there was one in particular who got my attention she had a child on her back I went to talk to her and she told me the baby was he has I was so shocked asking her age she told me she was 13 years old leaving my community at a young age I was not taught the truth about the traditions that allowed it were free or get to get married after being sent to an incest or camp girls are taken to the initiation camps as soon as they have their first video in these camps they are taught about how to sexually priests men and will be submissive later in the night a man is brought over for what they call creasing during which he has sex with all the girls while they are blindfolded it is that in the spread of HIV has no protection is used some girls even end up being pregnant from this one man while they are very young when these girls go to initiation camp they're forced to go into marriage but for me I said no because when we get a girl child to get the whole area the whole nation and the whole world [Music] accepted the position of senior chief presiding over nearly 800,000 people and I made it my life's mission to end the practice of child marriages [Music] I am fighting to Reza legal age for marriage 221 so the girls will finish smoke it is my dream to have foreign scholarships to empower girls to fulfill their potential keeping girls in school is the single most important factor in breaking the cycle of poverty and preventing lifelong programs for women [Music] we can completely end sad marriages when girls are trading they have a future [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Channel: UN Women

Views: 967,955

Keywords: child marriage, malawi, violence against women, Google, VR180, Courage to Question

Id: n5_yPX17-Yc

Length: 6min 30sec (390 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 08 2019