Johannesburg — In Malawi, if both a girl and boy are born into a poor family, it will naturally be the boy in whom all the financial resources are invested.
"Money for school will be given to the boy child," said Victor Maulidi, the acting network coordinator for the NGO Gender Coordinating Network. "The girl child will stay home. They won't expect (her) to go higher."
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