Training offered on the Prevention of Harmful Traditional Practices

DMU: Debre Markos University community service directorate in collaboration with the office of culture and tourism of Gozamen Woreda conducts training on prevention of harmful traditional practices in Fendika kebele, Gozamin woreda for religious leaders, Idir leaders, elders and others concerned bodies.

Debre Markos University community service directorate training and consultancy officer Mr. Basazinew Dires states that minimizing and eradicating harmful traditional practice from the woreda is the main objective of the training. Mr. Basazinew also says that religious leaders, Idir leaders, and elders and others should play great role to change peoples’ attitude towards traditional practices so that the university will follow the implementation and result.

The training has been given by sociology, psychology, economics, law and health professionals of Debre Markos University to show clearly the social, psychological and economical impact of traditional practices on the society. Professionals give details about the consequences or impact of harmful traditional practices in multidirectional way.

Genital mutilation, polygamy, early marriage, alcohol addiction, mourning, extravagant cost/expenditure are among the main existing harmful traditional practices practiced in the area that are identified by the participants. These practices have greater impacts on the social, economical, cultural, psychological and other issues.

Additionally, the participants also noticed that they are planning to mitigate and eradicate those harmful traditional practices practiced in their area through religious association, Idir, and other social gathering leaders will use influential people in the kebele to make their as opinion leaders in the act against harmful traditional practices .