Pads are still sold in schools while condoms are free. Friday's room wants pads that easy to get, in every school.
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Pads are still sold in schools while condoms are free. Friday's room wants pads that easy to get, in every school.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialA girl's period should never cost her a school day. Pads are still sold in schools while condoms are free.
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The young men on Friday called themselves the minority of the day. They listened. Ending child marriage is our work too.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialEnding child marriage is men's work too. All men, not just young ones. Girls learn to say no, boys learn respect.
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Someone always says child marriage is a rural thing. Friday's room disagreed. Mathare has no cattle. It has rent and floods.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialChild marriage is a rural problem? The room disagreed. Mathare has no herds, but it has rent, food prices and floods.
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Friday's clearest point: if she wears a school uniform, she is a child. Child marriage gets reported, not settled at home.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialA girl in school uniform is a child. Marriage under 18 is a crime in Kenya. Report it. Do not negotiate it at home.
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Why is child marriage still with us in 2026? Poverty, custom, and projects that stop when the money stops. Hard to argue.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialWhy is child marriage still here? Poverty, custom, and programmes that stop when the money stops. Money alone will not end it.
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Child marriage here rarely looks like a wedding. It starts as a sleepover, or a small gift. Then comes the silence.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialIn Mathare, child marriage rarely looks like a wedding. A sleepover that never ends. Gifts a poor family accepts. Then silence.
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We read every Day of the Girl theme since 2012 on Friday. The first was about ending child marriage. So is this year's.
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Disaster Risk Reduction Day is tomorrow at Y&U: https://forms.youthandurbanism.org/public/cnwy2_WYBr3X6eS5ONRL8LQJ8JsQ7a9C
When the river rises in Mathare, who hears the warning first? We ask it at the Hub and online, 13:00 to 16:30 EAT, free.
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialDisaster Risk Reduction Day is tomorrow at Y&U: https://forms.youthandurbanism.org/public/cnwy2_WYBr3X6eS5ONRL8LQJ8JsQ7a9C
When the river rises in Mathare, who hears the warning first? We ask it at the Hub and online, 13:00 to 16:30 EAT, free.
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.social2012 theme: Ending Child Marriage. 2026 theme: End Child Marriage and Invest in Girls' Rights. Fourteen years, back at the start.
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We marked the Day of the Girl on Friday. The young women at our Mathare Hub led the talk on child marriage. I mostly listened.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialWe marked the Day of the Girl on Friday. Young women in Mathare led our session on ending child marriage. They spoke first.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialInternational Day of the Girl. Across fourteen sessions our SRHR Girls Outreach in Mathare carried rights alongside climate and care, and surfaced how constrained the girls' own aspirations are. Girls design this work with us. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
Did you know UN Women's 2023 paper found women and girls do about three times the unpaid care men and boys do, worth roughly nine percent of global output.
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