A market woman sits in the shade in Morogoro in eastern
Tanzania, the site of the pilot radio campaign about
“Fataki,” the laughable, girl-chasing older man. Like
everyone in this highland region, she’s heard of Fataki. As she
stacks tomatoes into small piles, she explains how the Fataki
campaign helps girls avoid the sexual advances of much older,
wealthier men. “From the Fataki program, we learn that many
older men still trick our children. In these relationships a girl gets
intimidated, she gets pregnant, and cannot continue with school;
she has lost that opportunity. And then those old people that trick
them will leave them and that girl will suffer alone…”