ODD WORLD: Parents send their 10 year Old girls to sex initiation camp to have sex and learn.

These girls as young as 10-years-old are made to attend initiation
camp, which is considered a rite of passage. They are sent by their
families to make sure they are accepted into their communities as
adults while being told they are attending a camp with their friends,
but when they arrive they are shown how to have sex and told they must
lose their 'child dust' as soon as they can or they will get a skin
disease.

One young girl named Grace who, at the time, was only 10-years-old and
very excited when she learned that she would be going to summer camp
with her friends. All the girls her age that lived in her southern
Malawi village were going to this initiation camp. The initiation camp
took place not far from her home in Golden Village, where Grace lives
with her grandmother.

Speaking with a group of journalists visiting Malawi with the United
Nations Foundation, Grace said during her week-long stay, she was
taught about respecting her elders and doing household chores, but
also how to have sex by the women that led the camp who are known as
he women, known as anamkungwi, or 'key leaders'. The women
demonstrated sexual positions and encouraged girls to do 'sexual
cleansing,' also called kusasa fumbi, which meant they should get rid
of their inexperience with sex through practice. But they were not
taught about the risks of pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases or
how to protect themselves. They were forbidden from using condom.

"You should be dancing and have a man on top of you, making him
happy," she was told.

According to Joyce Mkandawire, the communications advisor for the
Girls Empowerment Network said many girls are often not given the
choice and sometimes adult men (known as hyenas) are hired by the
girl's own parents. These men come into the girls' room at night to
have sex with them. During the initiation ceremonies, many girls have
to unprotected sex with a man to prepare them for womanhood. Without
undergoing this process, a girl was considered to be a child and was
therefore illegible for marriages.
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.