{"id":51,"date":"2015-08-31T10:19:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T10:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kooldesignprojects.com\/roots-africa-wp\/?p=51"},"modified":"2015-10-29T13:08:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T13:08:38","slug":"lest-we-forget-dac-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/2015\/08\/31\/lest-we-forget-dac-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Lest we forget: DAC 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dialogue is essential in ending practices, norms and attitudes around child marriage. Today (16 June 2015), ROOTS team commemorated the Day of the African Child with more than 300 community members from David Small Farm, Shamva. We discussed practical solutions to end child marriage at the mining community. &#8220;We have the power to end child marriage, we need to value our girls and send them to school&#8221; said the community chairperson.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rootsafrica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Fb_second.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-118 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/rootsafrica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Fb_second-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Fb_second\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Fb_second-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Fb_second.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Several activities were conducted on the day, among them, traditional dances, poetry, and community dialogue sessions, all in the spirit appreciating the role played by the &#8216;African Child&#8217;. Key messages shared by community members were focused on the need to empower young girls through education and further training initiatives on their Sexual and Reproductive Health as a means to eradicate child marriage. However, the participation of males in these dialogue sessions was a reflection of the positive strides being made in ensuring that indeed child marriage is a factor that affects not only women in particular, but the entire community as a whole. This year\u2019s commemorations were done under the theme \u201c25 Years after the Adoption of the African Children\u2019s Charter: Accelerating our Collective Efforts to End Child Marriage in Africa\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rootsafrica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Fb_first.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-116\" src=\"http:\/\/rootsafrica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Fb_first.jpg\" alt=\"Fb_first\" width=\"682\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Fb_first.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Fb_first-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dialogue is essential in ending practices, norms and attitudes around child marriage. Today (16 June 2015), ROOTS team commemorated the Day of the African Child with more than 300 community members from David Small Farm, Shamva. We discussed practical solutions to end child marriage at the mining community. &#8220;We have the power to end child marriage, we need to value our girls and send them to school&#8221; said the community chairperson. Several activities were conducted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}