Education and Empowerment of Girls and Women key to ending Child Marriages
UNICEF reports that an estimated 46 per cent of India women are married before they are 18. This stunning statistic gets enhanced to 55 per cent when you move into rural areas. This is also true for boys. Child marriage not only results in additional familial responsibility, but also means the end of education, childhood and contributes to infant and maternal mortality in the country. The key deterrents to an early marriage are three – education, empowerment and economic development of women. But most important if all is the need for men to get engaged in preventing early marriage. Read here how various World Vision projects around the country have successfully responded to it.
Hill Schools prevent child marriages
Close to hundred girls who have ever been in schools in the child marriage rampant Kalrayan Hills, are getting prepared for higher education. World Vision’s Kalrayan Hills ADP works closely with the residential schools set up by the Government, ensuring that children get enrolled and stay enrolled.... [[read more]]
Getting men involved to end child marriages
Forenti is a shy 16 year old studying in the 7th standard in a residential school in the town of Tonk, Rajasthan where Disha ADP operates. Three years ago she was on the verge of being married off when the youth club in her village Nayagaon came to know of this and rushed to her rescue.... [[read more]]
Empowered women fight against child marriage
If girls are in school today in Pachadu hamlet, the credit goes to people like sixty year old Annal who are determined to see the right to education for their children is fulfilled. Pachadu is one of the most interior and backward regions in the hills of Kalrayan, where migration, early marriage and child labour was prevalent..... [[read more]]
Life-skills work to stop slum girl from early marriage
In her early twenties, what makes Baby More decide not to jump into marriage when girls below her age are set to tie the knot? The answer is – that this young lady was part of a World Vision’s counseling programme aimed at grooming girls to face the complex challenge of growing up in a world of gender bias, economic poverty and HIV.... [[read more]]
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