@manomar
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There are many strategies that one may use. The first one is couple education. It is very important that wives and their husband learn together in order to prevent violence. The second one is to empower women after senzitizing men on the importance of women to make income at home.
The other one is to train men, boys, and women on positive masculinity, non violent communication, Pacific conflict résolution and social cohesion.If Mercy lived my community, the situation would remain the same. Even if many NGOs and government laws are doing their best to finish this, I can not confirm that her situation would be much better. Even in Burundi, men are aware that they have to check for money and the wives to stay home. Even if wives work and earn money, some of them bring the salary to the man or they even not go to the bank because it’s their husband who have to go to the bank. There still much to do
Gender inequalities enable violence against women in Mercy’s community. It’s not understandable that one is not allowed to play with others because of his sex. Mercy liked to play football but can’t play it because she is a girl. She can’t even continue her studies while her brother go on with his studies. This perpetrate these inequalities generations to generations. After she heard on radio that It’s forbiden to bit wives, she’ve been suprised to mean that disorder is like institutionalized.
In my Organization,we have a programme which seek to prevent violence against women by helping them to set their own business so that they Will not always wait for their husband to satisfy every need at home. To set this programme,we began to senzitize men so that they become aware of the working of their wives. We referred to examples of women who are Ministers,teach at universités,…
