Good Husband Campaign Will Reduce Early Pregnancies In The Country-YWCA

The good Husband campaign will reduce cases of gender-based violence (GBV) and early pregnancies in the country, Young Women Christian Association (YWCA) executive director Patricia Ndhlovu has said.
Ms Ndhlovu said annually more women and girls are being subjected to physical, psychological and economic violence compared to men and boys in the country.
She said the association last year recorded 8,104 cases of GBV countrywide with 28 percent cases occuring in Eastern Province.
She said this during the evaluation of the Good Husband Campaign at Maguya Basic School in Chief Maguya’s area in Chipata.
Ms Ndhlovu said the campaign, which started this year in February, was being implemented in Jerusalem in Chief Maguya’s area as an intervention to end GBV through enhanced male involvement as agents of change.
“Annually, we record about 8,000 cases of GBV and only 10 percent of these involve men, meaning about 800 men and boys suffer from gender violence compared to 7,200 women and girls,” she said.
She commended Chief Maguya and the community, especially some men who have volunteered to be Good Husband activists, a development she said will help reduce violence-related problems.
Chief Maguya said with the coming of the Good Husband Campaign, his task has been made easier.
He warned husbands against beating their wives and parents marrying off their daughters.
One of the trained Good Husband activists,  Ramsden Banda, 65, said in the past he used to spend nights at girlfriends’ homes but now he is a changed man following the YWCA programme and he promised never to promote GBV in whatever form.