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Seodi White
12 quotes
“When I came back the next day, the “women” had indeed gathered waiting for me. However I noticed that the “women” were not women, as such. They were… kids. Teenage girls”
Seodi White wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was hoping to talk to women and not to kids or girls, as I don’t think they would understand much about inheritance”
Seodi White wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My hero the law, save the girls,” I thought! Yet, I soon found out that this was a complex story”
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“I will remain sad because I know the cost of child marriage. It deprives girls of education and undermines their self-confidence and self-identity. It also makes them prone to physical and emotional abuse by their so called husbands”
Seodi White wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Girl-child marriages need to be prohibited tough the Constitution because they are a violation of every conceivable human right including the right to life, health, education, human dignity and development”
Seodi White wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What I know for sure child marriage is a guarantee for poverty among girls in my country and I want it to end. No ifs or buts”
Seodi White first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘No ifs or buts’: Child marriage needs to be abolished in Malawi, once and for all,March 3, 2015,by Seodi White
“widow cleansing,” a traditional practice in which a widow is expected to have sexual relations, “in order to cleanse her”
Seodi White wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is a belief that if she does not sleep with someone, the spirit of her dead husband will come and visit upon her and her family will be cursed”
Seodi White wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s a mindset issue,” says White. Even the widows, they’ve told me, ‘I don’t want to die, I don’t want a curse to come to my husband.’ They cry to be cleansed”
Seodi White wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some have actually come out in the open and said: ‘I used to be a commercial cleanser, I’m HIV positive, I’ve stopped, it’s not fine and I go village by village telling other commercial cleansers to stop this, it’s a risky taboo behavior”
Seodi White wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I decided I’m going to dedicate my life to dealing with injustice, just because I don’t like it when a structure or system puts others in poverty, puts others in a position of inequality”
Seodi White wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In this country, to get ahead in life, to beat poverty, you need education”
Seodi White first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lawyer fights ‘widow sex’ tradition in Malawi,March 21, 2013,by Robyn Curnow and Jenni Watts, CNN