“I started helping around the house when I was eight years old,” says Treza.

“There are some chores, which I am specifically tasked to do. Others, I just feel like I have to do them as part of my responsibility in the house.

“I mop the house, do the dishes and cook food for the family. I sweep around the yard and occasionally, I have to do laundry for my siblings.

“Sometimes, I arrive late for classes and get sent back home.”

Treza has two sisters and a brother who she says hardly helps with chores.

“Most of the time he doesn’t. He says because he is a boy he cannot do household chores.

“They [parents] support it. They say there is no way my brother can be cleaning dishes when the girls are around.

“I wish boys and girls could do the chores together. There is no work that was designed specifically for girls or boys, we can all sweep, mop, work in the fields.”
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Everyone should pull their weight at home.

You make a mess, you clean up after yourself. Household chores should be evenly shared out amongst siblings so no one feels they've been taken advantage of.

It also paves the way to self-reliance and future independence.

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Everyone should pull their weight at home.

You make a mess, you clean up after yourself. Household chores should be evenly shared out amongst siblings so no one feels they've been taken advantage of.

It also paves the way to self-reliance and future independence.

GOD bless you 247