… and sends girls back to school
Bron: Inhabitots (04-10-2016) female-chief-in-malawi-breaks-up-850-child-marriages-and-sends-girls-back-to-school
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“De QFWF juicht het toe dat zowel de positieve kant van rituelen en tradities wordt belicht en ook dat er aandacht is voor ‘de andere kant’.
Tradities zijn gericht op het behoud van de waarden en wijsheid van volkeren en culturen. Dat is ontegenzeggelijk een belangrijke kracht, vooral in de laatmoderne tijden van versnelling, de hurry die iedereen structureel heeft in deze tijden, en innovatie ‘om de innovatie’.
Tradities kunnen de emancipatie van groepen en minderheden — vanuit een kritisch-maatschappelijk perspectief bezien — ook in de weg staan.
In dit bericht gaat het niet over een minderheid maar om de helft van de mensheid, over het belang van gender issues bij de emancipatie agenda.”
Theresa Kachindamoto, the senior chief in the Dedza District of Central Malawi, wields power over close to 900,000 people… and she’s not afraid to use her authority to help the women and girls in her district. In the past three years, she has annulled more than 850 child marriages, sent hundreds of young women back to school to continue their education, and made strides to abolish cleansing rituals that require girls as young as seven to go to sexual initiation camps. With more than half of Malawi’s girls married before the age of 18, according to a 2012 United Nations survey — and a consistently low ranking on the human development index, Kachindamoto’s no-nonsense attitude and effective measures have made her a vital ally in the fight for women’s and children’s rights.
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[1] Theresa Kachindamoto, the senior chief in the Dedza District of Central Malawi, wields power over close to 900,000 people… and she’s not afraid to use her authority to help the women and girls in her district. In the past three years, she has annulled more than 850 child marriages, sent hundreds of young women back to school to continue their education, and made strides to abolish cleansing rituals that require girls as young as seven to go to sexual initiation camps. With more than half of Malawi’s girls married before the age of 18, according to a 2012 United Nations survey — and a consistently low ranking on the human development index, Kachindamoto’s no-nonsense attitude and effective measures have made her a vital ally in the fight for women’s and children’s rights.
