Critical
issues raised during the tour
·
As child
education is one of the determinants of child marriage: The feasibility of the
ECD program considering that some children have to walk over 10 km to school.
·
As law
enforcement is critical to stop child marriage: Need to have more police
officers and police stations in these areas.
·
Poverty, the
girl child and circle of poverty: child marriage is being fuelled by lack there
is need to start self help projects as a way of empowering households achieve
food security and access to facilities.
·
Bottle
stores are fuelling juvenile delinquency as there is no strict enforcement of
the law that prohibits those under 18 from buying liquor.
·
Policies
championing child development seem to be alien to the communities were child
development is lagging behind i.e. level of compliance to policy is very low
because of cultural ,linguistic ,infrastructural and geographical barriers.
·
The absence
of a social budget has continued to fuel child marriages cognisant to the
testimony of a 15 year girl who was orphaned and was married off early so that
she could survive ,her testimony was to the effect that child marriage came as
a salvation to her when she was faced with a bleak future no parents and social
service support to lean on .
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