research shows that rape of young girls is normally of school children in the early morning when they are going to school and in the evening when they are going back home often through thick bushes and other unsafe pathways but when we talk to governments about this they hardly have the resources to provide sanitation and water to communities they dont see it as a priority we had a conference to talk about how we can support the sadc gender unit to mainstream gender in the sadc organ on polities defence and security