Because I am a Girl - Sierra Leone

Plan UK recently launched 'Because I am a Girl', a report looking in to undesirable conditions and issues girls all over the world my deal with every day. The report discusses issues from Female foeticide and child trafficking to Education and Marriage. For more info visit www.becauseiamagirl.org

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[thomsylfenton]

You are lying, I'm a Sierra Leonean,and I've lived there for the rest of my life,its just now that I'm out. I didn't see that type of discrimination among any Sierra Leonean community.Maybe your mother and father were doing discrimination among your family. So please stop lying. Thomas Sylvanus Gbondo,Australia.

[planuk]

Aminata, the girl interviewed in the video is from Sierra Leone and was certainly reflecting truthfully on her own experience and that of many other young women Plan has spoken to -- Plan has been working in Sierra Leone since 1976 The experience of young men is often different to those of girls and discrimination is not always so easy to pick up when it is not directed at you.

[planuk]

Plan is collaborating with local organisations in Sierra Leone, including the Federation of African Women Educationalists, who are concerned about educational opportunities for girls.

For further information and more personal experiences you can read Plan's report' Because I am a Girl' downloadable from our site at becauseiamagirl . org -- or if you wish we can put you in touch with local organisations in Sierra Leone working to fight gender discrimination.

[aisha12360]

i cant understand u

[winnerACE1109]

is she speaking english?

[telalieyou4kinlooter]

but i will conceed that neo african patriarchy is as messed up as neo western matriarchy

yuk.

[telalieyou4kinlooter]

like people are just sitting around deliberately not sending girls to school..only someone who doesn't know west africa and its history can act like that...a post colonial mentality garnered during a generation or so (even though sierra leone 2 centuries old as a nation) is mixed up with inherent west african mentality. what sort of nation disrepsepcts their womenfolk? a backwards nation-this is a round about way of saying that africans are backwards-if not why not GET RID OF S.A.P in that case?

[telalieyou4kinlooter]

depriving girlsof the rights of education? when westerners privatise the schools and implement structural adjustment programs that restrict the amount of money spent on basic institutions...? wtf is this? everyone should get to go to school, if people thought that a girl would be taken more seriously in the academic world, and abroad, they would send her to school, but more often than not its a risk to send any child to school because of the money needed. why people chat so much smucky?

[817leone]

that is what happen to you not all the other girls..but the secret society is true which is good because girls need to learn how to be responsible of their house hold not to be a hoe

[akalowlow21]

sam man agree wit u wan hundred!

[idrissa55]

Good speach!Always raise your voice

when you seek 4 mutual respect.

[JaktFibaz]

strong accent

[aaliyah965]

r they serious wat sierra leone is she talkin about. wat a brainwashed speech. it might b durin d stone age not d present sierra leone dat i know. this is bullshit man. "six month baby bein raped r they 4 real go shurve it somewhere else. chrismas goats.