my name is anne and i am 19 years old
i have a son and i live with my parents
brothers and sisters
we share a one-room shack in a township
in south africa
my father used to do odd jobs but since
the kovo 19 pandemic
he hasn't had any work he ended up
borrowing money from loan sharks and got
into debt
with the lockdown the entire family had
to spend
every day stuck together at home in the
first few months of the pandemic
my dad would get drunk and hit me my mum
and sister
we're at risk of losing a generation of
girls and young women um and going back
at least a decade on progress that we've
made around gender equality
girls are not going back to school and
we know that young women have lost jobs
and not going back into the work into
the working
environment and also are the principal
caregivers
so i think it's it's really dangerous
this happened to me
in the middle of my favorite thai
holiday in the middle of the day with
hundreds
i realized it there were five of them
surrounding me
and putting their hands violence comes
in many many forms
emotional violence
you know neglect as well and so just
looking back yes there's been multiple
times
um where i've seen i've experienced it
i've had to
put foundation on on my friend's
legs to cover up the bruises before we
did fashion shows we're
only talking to our girls we're telling
them to
protect themselves we're telling them to
cover themselves up don't get into these
situations where you're the only girl we
are not talking to our boys about
you know respect and consent and and
and things like that
it used to be really bad at home but now
that my dad is getting help
things are improving for the family and
i'm also getting help
so i can continue with my studies
you