‘We have been working on tackling child marriage within the Her Choice programme for 3 years now and we see that the number of child marriages is decreasing and the knowledge about sexual rights is increasing. We also see that many more girls go to high school.’ Evelijne Bruning, country director of Her Choice alliance […]
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the ground breaking International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), which took place in Cairo in 1994. In that year 179 countries committed themselves to the goal of empowering women. The goal: to strengthen the development of these women, their families and communities. Her Choice was present at […]
Making girls independent by providing them bikes. It may sound simple, but turns out to be a powerful tool to empower girls and even reduce child marriage rates. As part of Her Choice’s strategy to improve access to education, Bedari -Her Choice’s local partner in Pakistan- has experimented with the strategy of providing bicycles to […]
In the North Shoha Ethiopian region, east of the capital Addis Ababa, The Hunger Project is actively working within the Her Choice alliance to end child marriage. In North Shoha, The Hunger Project is focusing on getting drop-outs back to school. Often these are girls who have dropped out of school after a child marriage […]
In the North Shoha Ethiopian region, east of the capital Addis Ababa, The Hunger Project is actively working within the Her Choice alliance to end child marriages. For example, by setting up Girls Clubs and making sanitary pads available. In this way teenage girls can go to school as long as possible. Not only does […]
In the North Shoha Ethiopian region, east of the capital Addis Ababa, The Hunger Project is actively working within the Her Choice alliance to end child marriages. For example by setting up Girls Clubs, through lessons on sexual rights, by increasing economic security for girls and their families, and through village discussions. The entire village […]
One of the six strategies Her Choice applies in the field addresses the transformation of social norms and traditional customs that are fostering child marriage. This ranges fom families arranging marriages between daughters and sons at an early age, regarding girls as financial burden or source of income and giving priority to the education of […]
There is a special list hanging in the village communal hut of Basan, a little Nepalese village in the Terai region -close to the Indian border – of only 75 households sitting on the banks of a river. It takes a two hours’ drive along battered roads and through the river to reach Basan from […]
With the support of Her Choice alliance member ICDI, CWIN interviewed four Dharma Gurus from four different religions about their opinion about child marriage. They all agree that child marriage has to be stopped. They’re not only condemning it, they also actively call upon parents and religious leaders not to marry off their children. Even […]
Meet 15-year-old Mamata from Bangladesh. Her dream was to become a school teacher, but suddenly things were decided differently for her. Hoping that it would solve their financial problems, Mamata’s parents wanted their teenage daughter to marry soon. Worldwide there are millions of girls like Mamata. Girls who have dreams about becoming teachers, doctors, lawyers. […]
