The next time you are unwilling to get up in the morning and have to drag your feet to get to school, think again. There are so many children all over the world that do not have the same opportunities that you do, and listed here are a couple of traditions in other countries and what it is like living in these countries:
Teen girls all over the world are not as fortunate as teens living in South Africa.
In Sri Lanka nearly half the 51 00 children that are involved in war in Sri Lanka are girls, and around the world, girls make up at least half of the 300 000 child soldiers.
In Nepal two million girls between the ages of five and fifteen are traded for the sex trade, and every year 7000 girls are trafficked into India’s prostitution districts to work as prostitutes.
In Iran it is banned to date, and males and females are kept apart until marriage. Marriages are arranged by families.
In Cameroon as is the case of nearly all families in third-world countries are unable to send their children to school, and if they are able to, then only the boys are sent to school, resulting in almost half the girls across the world being illiterate.
In Mauritania girls attend fattening farms and are forced to eat in order to fatten up in preparation for marriage – it is believed that the fatter the girl, the more space she will take up in her husband’s heart.
Although the government has banned female circumcision, it is still widely practiced on at least 74% of females; this is a cruel practice and three million girls in Africa are still forced to have FGM (female genital mutilation) carried out on them.
In the Philippines teenage females are forced to work under dangerous conditions in labour-intensive jobs that are poorly paid, and where they are underfed.
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