Chiefly lives
on Colm in Kenya (Kenya), 23/Feb/2011 10:22, 34 days ago
This is the angry blog. The one that says how I don’t understand how we can ignore a stat that tells us 3 out of 5 girls in Sub-Saharan Africa’s first sexual experience is forced upon them.This is an angry blog that says that 8.1% of women are HIV positive in Kenya compared to 5.4% men, that girls are exposed to the virus earlier than boys due in a significant way to older men exploiting their innocence and tells that 30,000 teenage girls servicing sordid sex tourists get paid double the normal price if they agree to do it without a condom.This an angry blog aimed at African men. Men who are far less likely to be tested for HIV then women partly due to the success of post-natal and ante-natal testing but largely down to ignorance, stupidity and pride. Aimed at people who are not doing enough to effectively target a group that companies like Guinness orMTNdo with comparative ease.This is an angry blog aimed at the white wrist band, live 8 lovers who once championed with their favorite celebrity the now forgotten, ignored and abused girl child. It asks how any woman can care and do so little for their gender so ruthlessly, rampantly and raucously oppressed while they read pages and pages of Katie Price or Paris Hilton. How blind they are to the fact that largest abused sector is you– the woman, the girl. Or the men who commit the Crime.This is an angry blog aimed at a predominantly ineffective donor sector that makes careers out of the poor. A sector that has swallowed us up, me included and now fecklessly spits out numbers, quota’s, self-serving do-goodingrather than effectively tackling girl child rape in Nairobi slums, teachers abusing teenage girls in Kenya schools or giving women a voice and choice.This is a blog dedicated to the truly special, loving and compassionate women we've been lucky enough to have lived with. As mothers, a wives, friends and people. How they reminds us all how given the freedom to grow, any girl can achieve the magnificent, forever missed but forever loved feminine beauty that they so majestically represents.How we know how much we want more of them in our lives, but angry we're not doing enough to make it happen.For Jill.Google, Violence Against Women in Sub Saharan Africa next.