Stop Gender Based Violence and protect women's right.

Gender based violence is one of the touching issue which women/girls go through in society but the power to speak out sometimes is difficult.As Humanitarian/ counsellor on GBV I have come across a lot of terrible encounters.A young girl of 16 years of age narrates her story\"Her mum got married to another man who is not her father and took her along.As she lives with her mum and step Dad things have not been the best.Her step Dad have been making advances on her,whenever there's no one at home, this man will call her in the room and start touching and sucking her breasts.She has reported this to her mum on the many occasions but all her mum could tell her was close your mouth,don't come and spoil my marriage,I have suffered A lot to be married and now u want me to loss it.This little girl wept.

Furthermore,she told me she has decided to avoid home.That is she gets up early as 4:00Am to bath and then she continue with house chores later.When its time when everyone in the house is rushing to school she will hurilly put on her uniform and go out in order not to meet with her step dad.And when school is over she will stay in a neighbors house till the others are back from school so that her step Dad will not have any opportunity to touch her.That is how she has been surviving.It has been a challenging life for little Lucy.I stand to say stop Gender Based violence and stop violence against women/girls.It is our responsibility to build our homes,neighbourhood and community. End Gender based violence.Like little Lucy,there are many others experiencing such but are not able to speak out.Women/girls should learn how to speak out.