People with disabilities at a workshop in Murehwa In the Marange community in Manicaland people are slowly abandoning the practice of marrying young girls as the community leaders are now advocating for an end to child marriages. “After learning about child abuse, we no longer allow anyone to marry our young girls. We are announcing at all community meetings that early child marriages are wrong, as a result the cases of early child marriages have significantly gone down.” Workshops Bulawayo Gweru Harare Masvingo Mutare Total 246 62 94 70 44 516 Rural Female Male 2,932 2,514 616 1,117 1,502 1,411 560 691 899 609 6,509 6,342 Urban Female Male 1,191 566 196 334 1,049 490 100 200 227 154 2,763 1,744 Total 7,203 2,263 4,452 1,551 1,889 17,358 “After receiving legal education, I no longer tolerate any form of abuse in my community; I make sure that people report to the LRF or to the police. We were taught that we have a mandate to protect human rights as community leaders.” “Learnt about Customary Law inheritance how 1st and 2nd wives benefit from husband’s estate and those children from 1st and 2nd wives share equally.” “We thank you (LRF) for bringing us this knowledge; I didn’t know that the Constitution had laid down so many rights. The last time I heard about my rights was during Copac.” “Please come back and teach our children as well. They need to be educated on issues to do with child rights and inheritance as they affect them as well.” 13