In some schools, the provincial minister delivered a message that discourages girls from entering into marriage too early.
"Do not accept that while others are at their school desks, you wander aimlessly. You are losing the intellectual quotient of your development. Be disciplined, be respectful, beware of all counter-values. Do not be influenced by your peers, your elders to say if you go into marriage, they will give your parents $200, $300 and they will change their lifestyle," said the minister in front of a hundred attentive girls.
It is as part of the March dedicated to women's rights that this campaign was included to awaken the girls. This initiative aimed to raise their awareness so that they would not be swept away and influenced by the parents on one side and by the adventures of youth on the other.
Gisèle Mbuyi
Kananga: A campaign against early marriage conducted in schools
InternetKinshasaWoman - The Provincial Minister of Gender of Kasaï-Central, Aimerance Kalubi, raised awareness among female students at Buena Muntu High School about early marriage, urging them to focus on their studies, resist, and report any sexual harassment or marriage proposals before the required age.