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Published: 2015-03-27
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EIQ6n_SXxk
in my country just eighteen percent of goes attend secondary school why there are two sides to our stories indeed says from when you have a yeah fifty M. is that if the school site dye my school is a free man now he that means that parents do not have to pay fees to let that you don't go to school but that does not mean that going
to school is free they're hidden costs such as text books school uniforms in my tedious like pains in fact it is spiritual rainfall goes to say in school sometimes there is not even a glass dome delaying and delaying and a tree Angus sometimes I even have to walk a long way to reach the school often they're miniature doing in each classroom into no text teaching materials
that textbooks so you see it can be a struggle to stay in school that aside is that day's pressure from our families to stay at home in our culture ago must do they house week we must find time to cool sweep joy turned into kill volume gossiping tradition can also interfere with education when a guy reaches Djibouti she must take part in a musician ceremony this
means that she is stuck about how to be a good life some families been suited to stand for that book does to get married so here is the choice that all families face when they can my ass off in Germany Tennessee if a dory when then you'll has done pays for us to become their whites all I Sunday's game try had to keep us in school
but then they have to pay secondary school fees because there's no secondary school in my house now what would it plus some I do then there is talk of a choice then it demo mothers and fathers for taking us out of school no one does just eighteen percent of goes attend secondary school in my loudly no one and a half of the women in Malawi limited
before they were eighteen but if they go gets married at eleven or twelve that dangerous having sex in giving birth can be difficult for ha can't even kill her if a husband he's older than her it can be hard for her to my needs loves him because of the age difference but he believes that because he but tell if a jury she is his own position
she could not leave her husband and tend to school there is a contract sometimes in my culture Iman wants a child to be his second place because he says life has gone on in tired if he has money you buy a child to be his new life so to me as long as I know I say my knees when theme but we still is that nafta
so shouldn't we have the guts of my Lao week thank god is to express our own wishes a non dreams I said that we've a new generation should believe in the power of our own voices in the right to say yes to education and no to a marriage I may still full flag and the experience of the pre show off in a marriage this is my
story I was born the fed off of it Billy Graham's family my father died when I was full a my mother we now is taking then my uncle Kim it's said that my taught us he says had little put money in now does my ten I was twelve years old I told my uncle I wanted to stay school I do not want to get married I
had dreams of becoming a journalist if I did not go to school then this would not happen my uncle said that too will not pay for me to go to school in that as you stay in the VH and get married he was the alternative I was depending on at that time and he said that if I did not obey he would not take care of
me anymore that I was on my own but I made the choice not to stay in the village and get married because I thought you wanted twenty my studies I was very fortunate that my uncle was Dennis did you took me over a free school for offense quit chuckle and a school full of friends at this school they provide us with everything such as food medical
care and most of all free secondary and primary level and they also give us scholarships to go to the investors I believe I made the right decision to go to that school and it was quite tag please my family in the village but I was Jackie thank iffy secondary school in my loud and I'm lucky that this school is a very good their hand is over
thousands of goes my H. one not so lucky because they have no choice they cannot afford to go to school so I'm gonna nag to stand here today as a strong point did go who believes she does that they like to get education and I made the choice to exceed the expectations of my family in the community and I would like to give the other goes
the same believe but we cannot do Edo now on we must try to make the people who have power our parents are meeting in our government to see that education in that was us to become better people let us all try to give the to make the free quality overt Christian and realplus BDT in this country let us all try exceed expectations thank you
