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Children’s VoicesKey Informant InterviewA young person with a disabilityQ: How did you come to be here at this boarding school?A: I was brought here from my village by the priest, and I started staying with the nuns because athome no one was taking care of me, and I was denied education, and yet all the other normalchildren were taken to school [cries while speaking]. I came here, that was June 1995, then I startedschooling in P1 [Primary one].Q: Why were they not taking care of you at home?A: I don’t know. Maybe they think I am useless.Q: What kind of violence did you experience as a child who has a disability?A: I underwent so many problems. For example, when I excreted near the home, I would be thoroughlybeaten. All people would leave me home alone with no one to help me with even water to drink. Mystepfather would abuse my crippledness saying, “You are crippled, am I the one who crippled you?”My stepfather would hurl many abuses over me and my crippledness, and when he would buysomething good like fish or meat and people are eating, I would not be given. For example, oneday my stepfather bought fish and my other sisters cooked, and while I was still eating beans, hestarted beating me, without any fault, saying to me that my father died without feeding any of hischildren. He collected millet from the compound into a big saucepan, placed it on my head, then thesaucepan fell down and I also fell down, then he continued to beat me until blood started flowingfrom my head. My mother came back and went to the local council leader, and they said he shouldbe imprisoned, but he asked for forgiveness saying he did it because he was drunk, yet he used tobeat me daily. Then he was told to take me to hospital, which he did twice and stopped even beforethe wound healed. From then on whenever I would see him I would crawl to the bush near home, andwhen he goes away or sleeps in the night my mother would come and carry me and bring me in thehouse.36 Part Two Children’s Experiences
Children’s VoicesMy elder sisters and brothers who were normal would abuse me and refuse to bathe me. They onlyused to call me the “lame one who is crippled and cannot walk.” The final blow was when someonehad set the grass-thatched house on fire while I was sleeping inside. One of the neighbours came andbraved the fire and carried me out of the house, and after that I was brought to the mission whereI started studying up to P7 in 2002, and now am a store keeper with the school, and I do not misshome because here I am loved and taken care of.Q: How did you feel when all the violence was committed against you?A: I felt bad. I felt like committing suicide. In fact one day I tried suicide on a tree but failed as I couldnot climb high enough on the tree.Q: What thoughts do you have about the way the community treats children with disabilities?A: The normal people in the community take crippled people as useless. For example in our village therewas a lame child who was dumb as well, and she was mistreated, denied food until she died. Thesechildren are thoroughly beaten with big sticks or even thrown away into the bush because they wantyou to die. I personally was thrown away into a sisal plantation and then my brother came back fromschool and carried me back home. People should stop this kind of violence against disabled childrenso that they do not suffer, because we were also born by blood like the other children.18-year-old girl, ApacPart Two Children’s Experiences 37
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Page 5 and 6: DedicationThis work is dedicated to
Page 7 and 8: TABLES1.1 Children consulted throug
Page 9 and 10: EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThis study examine
Page 11 and 12: a new dimension to the adult-child
Page 13 and 14: PART ONEResearch DesignPURPOSE OF S
Page 15 and 16: PARTICIPANTSA total of 1406 childre
Page 17 and 18: METHODOLOGYData CollectionThe resea
Page 19 and 20: Through this process, two interesti
Page 21 and 22: Children’s VoicesWhat do you unde
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Page 25: It was recognized during the format
Page 28 and 29: QUESTION 1Have you experienced viol
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Page 32 and 33: Children’s VoicesHave you experie
Page 34 and 35: QUESTION 3Have you experienced emot
Page 38 and 39: QUESTION 4Have you experienced sexu
Page 42 and 43: QUESTION 5Have you experienced econ
Page 46 and 47: QUESTION 6Who commits violence agai
Page 50 and 51: QUESTION 7How do you feel when viol
Page 52 and 53: Children’s VoicesHow do you feel
Page 54 and 55: Children’s VoicesYou feel ashamed
Page 56 and 57: QUESTION 8What do you do when viole
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Page 60 and 61: QUESTION 9What, if anything, should
Page 62 and 63: Children’s VoicesWhat, if anythin
Page 64 and 65: Children’s VoicesSensitize elders
Page 66 and 67: KEY FINDINGSMore than 90 percent of
Page 69 and 70: PART THREEAdults’ Rationale for V
Page 71 and 72: QUESTION 1Are children punished in
Page 73 and 74: Adults’ VoicesCulturally, we watc
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Page 77 and 78: QUESTION 3How often do you punish c
Page 79 and 80: Adults’ VoicesHow often do you pu
Page 81 and 82: In what ways do you punish children
Page 83 and 84: Adults’ VoicesIn what ways do you
Page 89 and 90: In interviews, many teachers admitt
Page 91 and 92: Adults’ Voicestimes, I feel happy
Page 93 and 94: I know beating her has not changed
Page 95 and 96: QUESTION 7Are there ways in which a
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QUESTION 8What should be done when
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Adults’ VoicesWhat should be done
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6. Adults believe in a hierarchy of
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PART FOURRecommendationsWHAT WOULD
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violence. The legislation should in
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3.6 RESEARCHCommission research tha
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5.9 COMMUNITY SENSITISATIONIntroduc
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Part Four Recommendations101
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