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Item Approaching old problems in new ways: social work training using community education as a primary prevention strategy to combat gender-based violence(UNAM Press, 2017) Freeman, Rachel J.Engaging communities in addressing gender-based violence has become a strategy in the global prevention of gender-based violence. Community education can take many forms and can provide viable alternatives to ad hoc programming. It adds up individual interventions, sequences them into logical progression, strives to build on what is achieved, and has an overview on how various activities slowly come together to change the social climate. Community education is responsive participatory and based on a holistic analysis of the root causes of gender-based violence (Michau, 2007).Item The plight of an African girl child: Traditional cultural practices in Malawi(UNAM Press, 2017) Abankwah, Ruth M.The Malawian girl child is faced with many challenges such as early marriages to older men, dropping out of school due to pregnancy and instances where the tradition requires girls to have sex with a paid sex worker (Hyena) when they reach puberty. In some tribes in Malawi, this tradition is still revered by many elders who consider it to be sexually cleansing. Sexual cleansing also applies to women whose husbands die. Such a women is required to have sex with a paid sex worker known as 'hyena' before she buries her husband (Kamlongera, 2007). This act in itself is harmful to the victims who are vulnerable to sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS. Such people may be left with emotional and psychological scars which may never heal. The main question this concept paper ask is: Where does one draw the line between tradition and the African girl child's rights?