@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialTime poverty is poverty too. UNRISD records that extreme climate events and scarce firewood and water raise women's care work and worsen time poverty. In Mathare, hours at the water queue are hours not earning. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
Friday's room told us girls should lead this conversation, not organisations like ours. Mostly right. We amplify, then step back.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialShould girls lead this conversation, not organisations like ours? Mostly yes. Girls lead. We amplify, then step back.
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Should we stop asking girls and just fund them? Friday's room said do both. Asking without money is a survey.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialGirls have been asked enough, now fund them? Both. Asking without funding is a survey. Funding without asking is a guess.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialWorld Food Day. Through the 2023 to 2024 climate-stress period, mothers in Mathare's childcare collectives fed children from their own portions first. Caregiver hunger is the cost a household can hide, so nobody counts it. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
Friday's room asked if international days change anything. Only if we carry them between the dates. That is the plan.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialDo international days change anything? Only if someone carries them forward between the dates. That is our job.
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Would I know if a girl in my block was married at 15? Maybe not. Friday's answer: learn the signs. Then don't look away.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialWould you know if a girl on your block was married before 18? Friday's room split. Learn the signs, then act on them.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialThe YURI Hub Fund raised one million Kenyan shillings in two months, plus about a hundred thousand through crowdfunding, because women-led climate initiatives in Mathare could not reach seed capital. A million begins the work. It cannot back ten. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
We spend a lot of energy on preventing child marriage, rightly. Friday reminded me of the girls who need a way back.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialWhen a child marriage fails, a girl rarely gets back to school or home. Ending it is one job. A way back is the other.
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The hardest moment on Friday: girls married off to hide abuse at home. There is nothing to settle there. Report it.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialSome girls are married off to hide abuse in the family. The marriage hides one crime by adding another. Report both.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialEco-anxiety and climate grief are showing up as real burdens for women caregivers in urban informal settlements. And the grief is itself unpaid care work, carried while the household care work continues. Nobody gets bereavement leave from a household. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
Friday's room named it plainly: when a man tells a girl he is providing for her, he is buying her. A child is not payment.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialA girl is not payment for rent, food or fees. When a family is that stretched, support the family, not a marriage.
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At one of our forums a man claimed older men stay young by sleeping with girls. We have to answer myths like that, out loud.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialA man at one of our forums claimed sex with young girls keeps men young. Myths like that give abusers permission.
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