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KATETE DISTRICT, Zambia –<\/em> Gender-based violence (GBV) has long been treated as a private family matter in Mukomanimau Village, leaving many girls to deal with abuse and harmful practices such as child marriage alone.<\/p>\n However, the introduction of Safe Spaces, a community-led mentorship model under Spotlight Initiative, is supporting girls to break the silence and advocate for their safety and agency.<\/p>\n These spaces allow adolescent girls to gather weekly to learn about their rights and share their…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> KATETE DISTRICT, Zambia – Gender-based violence (GBV) has long been treated as a private family matter in Mukomanimau Village, leaving many girls to deal with abuse and harmful practices such as child marriage alone. However, the introduction of Safe Spaces, a community-led mentorship model under Spotlight Initiative, is supporting girls to break the silence and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":224551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,5211,5760,7010,257,6803,254,37131,6096,4709,881],"class_list":["post-224550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-charge","tag-future","tag-girls","tag-news","tag-safe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spaces","tag-support","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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