What We Do
FAR TOO YOUNg
I was far too young to be a bride,
Can’t you see, can’t you see,
I am still a child?
You sent me away to be a wife
To a man unknown to spend my life.
It was time for learning and for play,
Time to do the things, my way.
So much more, I had to grow,
Why did you have to let me go?
Mother, father, what despair
Turned me from your loving care,
Worked and threatened, torn apart,
Pain and sorrow broke my heart.
I was far too young to bear a child
So crushed, so weak, I nearly died.
I sing this song for all to hear,
I ask for help from far and near,
Please keep us children safe,
Please stop this curse,
Before this gets much too worse.
Our Multi-Pronged Approach
Helping reduce and eventually eradicate child marriage and save the child brides from harm
Education
Ensuring educational facilities to every girl. Providing scholarships to stay in schools.
Justice
Assisting local authorities to implement the law and reiterate it within communities.
Engage
Engaging with and supporting community based organizations in their work to bring about changes.
Mobilize
Involving men and mobilizing communities and families to change their perception and keep children safe and women free from violence and abuse.
Awareness
Increasing awareness and advocacy programs at local, national and international levels.
Empowerment
Empowering girls and women and enabling them to make their own choices.
Counselling
Counselling child brides and helping to break the vicious cycle.
Poverty Reduction
Providing vocational skills and job opportunities to increase means of earning.
Our Presence
Story-telling for Advocacy
FAR TOO YOUNG - THE FILM
‘In every classroom, in every community, in every country of the world’
After several years of research and screenplay development (based on real life events) the film against child marriage hopes to enter full production in the near future. Once completed, it will be disseminated widely in different languages.
THE TARA CAMPAIGN
Educate. Inform. Inspire.
The Tara Campaign uses illustrations and comic for awareness and advocacy. It tells the story of Tara, a child bride and a young mother who now fights against child, underage and forced marriages.
Our Target for 2024 | 2025
Reach people through awareness and advocacy against child marriage in communities and countries.
Provide vocational skills to young brides.
Form new partnerships and local bodies.
Provide additional scholarships to keep girl children in school.
Provide additional counselling to young brides.
Partnership and programs in new schools.