Around the world today, thousands of people will be beaten and abused, many at the hands of those closest to them. Others will be left in excruciating pain as a consequence of traditional practices. Thousands more will be trafficked into degrading and dangerous work. They have done nothing to deserve this treatment: they have simply been born female.
For Christian Aid, poverty is not simply about financial hardship: it is about having no say in how you live your life, no power to change conditions that keep you hungry, miserable or insecure. And in these cases of gender-based violence, poverty is endured at its most brutal.
Antoinette Powell caught up with Tendai Madondo, Christian Aid’s Programme Development Officer for the Irish Aid funded Multi Annual Partnerships programme, to find out why they feel tackling gender-based violence must be at the heart of exposing the scandal of poverty.
Programme Links:
- Christian Aid’s website: women of Sierra Leone
- Irish Aid’s MAPS programme
