Child Protection

Monday 1 March 2021

My baby had a death sentence; Banki's story

Banki, 20, is married and the mother of one child. She lives with her husband and their son in a small grass- covered house (Cottage) in Kayisa kebele, Hamer district of Southern Nation and Nationalities Peoples Region.

Monday 1 March 2021

Youth in action against harmful traditional practices; Murad's story

Murad, 17, leads “Gider Magala” (translated as the big market in the local Harari language) a youth association in Harar town of Harari Region, Ethiopia. A group of seventeen young volunteers established the association two years ago. The association now has about forty  members. 

Monday 1 February 2021

I don't want my siblings to go through what i had been through; Hawa's story

Hawa, is a 19 year-old girl from Asbuli, a rural kebele, in the Erer district of the Somali Region, Ethiopia. When Hawa was only 15 years old; her parents had forced her to marry a man three times her age. However, she was unhappy with her forced marriage and three months later, she ran away from her husband and fled to Djibouti

Hawa's story(In her own words) 

Tuesday 3 March 2020

FROM A TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANT TO A HEALTH PROMOTER: GUZGUZ’S STORY

FROM A TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANT TO A HEALTH PROMOTER: GUZGUZ’S STORY

 Guzguz, 52, a health promoter sitting outside her house in Ethiopia

Guzguz, 52, is a mother of three children. She lives in Agri - a rural village in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. 

Tuesday 25 February 2020

I WILL NOT CUT MY YOUNG DAUGHTERS: KEDIJA’S STORY

I WILL NOT CUT MY YOUNG DAUGHTERS: KEDIJA’S STORY

 

A mother of four, 38 –year- old Kedija, lives in Idora, a small remote rural village in Erer district of

Ethiopia’s Somali region. Close to 5,000 people live in Kedija’s village, earning a living mainly through livestock rearing.

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