Rhodney Kataka

https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-FQVK3D69V

Its really painful when you see a young girl getting married before getting an education.Its also so sad to see a young girl denied the chance to achieve her goals and dreams.Child marriage is like murder because it destroys the life and future of the girl.
Many girls are married off before attaining the age of 18years and most of these cases occur in rural areas.Most of this activity occur in Turkana,Kajiado and even part of Kisumu county.Poverty is the main reason as to why fathers in some of the rural areas marry off their girls as if they are selling them.They view their daughters as economic assets and marry them off in exchange of dowry.Others marry off to pay their debts while others are completely ignorant.
Those young girls are forced to drop out of school and become wives.Their dreams are completely destroyed and they become vulnerable to sexual and gender based violence ,HIV &STI infection and even pregnancy related complications.Child marriage is illegal in Kenya and no one should subject a child to female circumcision or early marriages.
Stopping child marriage has appositive impact for the girl child and on the family.When a girl is educated the family and the whole society benefits at large.Educating young girls will enable them create a brighter,healthier and more prosperous future for themselves.According to the survey,it show that there is still a high rate of early marriages being practiced.Its now the high time we stop silence and talk about this issue of early marriages among the African communities in Kenya.