Children’s marriage is far from being only a Kenyan question – the girls in Africa south of the Sahara are at high risk of childhood marriage, every third to 18 years, UNICEF Children’s Agency reports.
As part of the UN Sustainable Sustainable Development Goals, it was set as a term to stop child marriages completely, but UNICEF says progress must be “significantly accelerated” to achieve this.
The prevalence is diminished around the world – today every fifth woman between the ages of 20 and 24 were married because children are against almost every four years ago.
The fastest progress was made in South Asia, where the girl’s risk of getting married as a child decreased by more than a third.
But in a recent UNICEF report it is noted that Western and Central Africa, the region with the greatest prevalence of childhood marriages, has made little progress over the past 25 years. At the current pace, it will take the region for over 200 years to exclude practice.
Toby Schmutzler, one of the Nawi directors, says that all who worked on the film is passionate about the project, but the task is now to watch the movie.
“The message can be very beautiful, but if no one sees the movie, no one hears the message,” he says.
The film was shown at the UN Koni headquarters in New York last month -and Kenya chose it to present “Oscar”, although he did not short last week.
However, the director’s team reflects on the negotiations on the international issue in the US, Canada, Europe, Central Africa and Australia.
The film was released in Kenya at the end of last year, and Nairobi had one of the longest cinemas that were made from a local film.
