Losing sleep over child marriage in Mozambique: Sérgio Faife presents 55-hour-long live radio broadcast

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Losing sleep over child marriage in Mozambique: Sérgio Faife presents 55-hour-long live radio broadcast

9:28 CAT | 15 Jun 2016

Folha de Maputo (File photo) / Sérgio Faife, one of the most renowned TV and Radio presenters in Mozambique will host the program at Super FM Radio

World Vision supports 55 hours, non-stop, live radio broadcast to denounce early marriage in Mozambique

The plight of girls subjected to violence, particularly through early marriage, will be at the centre of an unprecedented live radio marathon over the coming weekend in Mozambique. Half of the country’s girls are married off before their 18th birthday, a ‘national tragedy’ the initiative wants to denounce and demand an end to. Supported by non-governmental organization World Vision, the event is organized by local radio station Super Fm, to mark this year’s Day of the African Child, on Thursday.

“As parents, as communities, as a country, we should be losing sleep over this. That is the message I want to get across by broadcasting my program live, non-stop, for 55 hours,” explained renowned radio presenter Sergio Faife. Sergio is a good will ambassador for World Vision in recognition for his contribution to the well being of children throughout the years.

The organization’s representative, Eleuterio Fenita, said “We expect this event to contribute towards prompting much more urgency in the efforts to fight this scourge”. He added that the expectation is that “Mozambique can get down to implementing the recently approved Government’s Strategy for the Elimination of Early Marriage”.

The ’55 hours for the end of violence against children’ live radio programme will feature interviews with victims of early marriage, government officials, civil society representatives, faith and community leaders. It will culminate with a public awareness raising musical concert to be held in one of the local schools in Maputo, on Sunday.

A number of other organizations support the initiative, including the Civil Society Organizations Network, Action Aid, Pathfinder International. Volunteers Services Overseas (VSO) and Men for Change Network (HOPEM).

The broadcast will start on Friday, June 17, at 11 a.m. and end on Sunday, June 19, at 6 p.m.

Source: World Vision Mozambique