@chacha
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With my community Parenting programs would be very critical – this will help in breaking the cycle of violence and having a good relationship between parents and their children.As I visit schools for school health programs key issues raised include lack of unity between parents and parents fighting as the children watch and it greatly affects them.
Addressing harmful alcohol use-Recently in my village 12 people died due to use of local harmful brewed alcohol and this will greatly affect the families but before that it has been a source of violence in my many families
Economic empowerment programs -women are still considered minor in the community with no voice.With cash transfer programs that strengthen them economically this will Assis to reduce violence
Community mobilization-to bring out community own interventions of ending VAW and IPV inclusive.The community should be educated on the dangers and effect of violence
Media and establishment education-With availability of local radio stations this is an opportunity to use the local dilent to discuss on the topic.For individual factors Mercy suffers from submissive femininity where she cannot defend herself from Violence,she feels the husband is always right and she cannot speak out against violence.
The community has made it normal for violence against women where men give been given power.Mercy as a woman had to drop out of school and got married early because of being a woman.She has fear for her children undergoing the same and the effects of violence but not empowered to speak out.I noted that the community supported IPV and that it was normalized. Mercy was undergoing physical violence, and she could not raise an alarm because it was believed it was normal for a husband to beat his wife. She is walking with her young girls because the community does not take seriously issues to do with VAC, like sexual violence. Economic violence comes out so well, but she does not even understand that what she is going through is wrong. With all this violence taking place and some of the consequences known, it is important to build structures and interventions that will help in the prevention of all this.
