Tuesday, October 3, 2023

"They say that girls are someone else's property"

In Nepal, approximately 33% of girls are married before their 18th birthday and 8% are married before the age of 15. Chadani, 18, was one of them.

Farah, child marriage survivor

Girls married off to reduce financial burden

In Bangladesh, approximately 51% of girls are married before their 18th birthday and 22% are married before the age of 15. Child marriage is more common in...

Chadani and her son

"They say that girls are someone else's property"

In Nepal, approximately 33% of girls are married before their 18th birthday and 8% are married before the age of 15. Chadani, 18, was one of them.

Fatimatah from Mauritania

Fatimatah, married at just 12

In Mauritania, approximately 37% of girls are married before the age of 18, and 18% are married before their fifteenth birthday, even though the minimum...

Varsha and her friends, Shivkanya and Gareema, dressed in traditional costumes in India.

Working with communities to end child marriage in India

India is known for its diverse culture and tradition. During celebrations, women and girls often dress in traditional attire with their ornaments. Ten-year...

Solutions Summit: Mobilising across the world to End Violence Against Children

World Vision Offices around the globe mobilisied to create the conditions for policy change and commitments from leaders through the Solutions Summit. In...

Amir at school in Syria refugee camp

Physical and emotional support in crisis

Early in the morning, 12-year-old Amir* looks out the window of the small basement he shares with his parents and four younger siblings. The sky is still...

John in his class in Rwanda

Child protection clubs restore hope to children

John* lives with his mother and five siblings. John’s mother has been the sole provider for their family since her husband abandoned them. Even though she...

Judette in Haiti

Bringing joy back to school

Judette, a 15-year-old, attends school in Fort Liberté, Haiti. After an altercation with another student, she received a beating from school staff as...

children prepare food on the floor outside their house

Together against violence

“When I was a child, my parents also taught me with a whip,” said Sọn, a 33-year-old mom living in the Northern mountainous district of Tuần Giáo, Điện...

Yaa chooses school

Yaa chooses going back to school over child marriage

Sixteen-year-old Yaa* lives with her mother, grandmother, and four siblings in Ghana. In 2020, during the COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, Yaa became pregnant...

A woman sits at a desk inside the child friendly center

Child-friendly centres encourage sexual abuse reporting

World Vision has made things easier for us as police and the community by providing Child Friendly Centres. More people, especially the children, are now...

Dola, child from Bangladesh fighting Child Marriage

Sponsored child, Dola, proclaims to the world that girls are not a burden

Sponsored child, Dola, proclaims to the world that girls are not a burden “Many people of Bangladesh treat girl children as a burden. My mother was also a...

Janet, student in school in Uganda, values education more than child marriage

Janet, faced with child marriage, fights for her education in Uganda

“Both my parents are small-scale farmers. My father always complained about having all of us in school at the same time.” Janet is one of eight children....

Child bride takes back her life in Iraq

Forced to marry at 11, Amai takes back her childhood

Amai* sat very still in her chair. Her headscarf was wrapped tightly around her small face. Her large eyes darted around with a mix of childish curiosity...

Dibya speaks out about her experience of child marriage at the United Nations CRC anniversary

A child marriage story: child rights in Nepal

By Dibya, 17, Nepal Five years ago, when I was just 12 years old, I started going out with a boy from a nearby village. Everything was fine until this boy...

Mulu was given up by her mother and forced to find work as a housemaid

Mulu*'s story - The violent truth about teenage pregnancy

Mulu, now 17, was just six-years-old when her father died and her mum gave her to another family as she struggled to support her children. As Mulu grew up...

Zion shares her story of teen pregnancy in Uganda

Zion*'s story - The violent truth about teenage pregnancy

Zion, 16, is eight months pregnant. She lives near Ngogwe in Uganda. I finished Primary 7, and then went to stay with my father for Senior 1. I only...

Three years ago, when she was 14, Adjoa started selling things by the roadside to help her mum out at home. There she met a 35-year-old man who offered to take care of her and help her with school supplies. Adjoa ended up pregnant.

Adjoa*'s story - The violent truth about teenage pregnancy

Three years ago, when she was 14, Adjoa started selling things by the roadside to help her mum out at home. There she met a 35-year-old man who offered to...

Boy writing on white board

Ending violence against children, one penny at a time

By Elena Gaia, Senior Advisor – Violence Against Children, World Vision In September 2015, world leaders made a promise to children worldwide: that every...

Top 5 things to know about the violence in the Kasai region

By: Kate Shaw World VIsion Communications Consultant, Kasai Response 1. Violence in the Kasai region escalated from 2016 to 2017 It was due to a local...

Dreams interrupted

By Dominique Monera-Tabora, World Vision “I often dream of going back and finishing my university degree,” Rawan wistfully said looking pensive. But going...

11 things you can do right now to help end violence against children

World Vision’s campaign ‘It takes a world to end violence against children’ was named because no one individual, group or organisation can solve this...

Actor Liam Cunningham urges all to help end violence against children

Actor Liam Cunningham from the popular show Game of Thrones has witnessed first hand the plight of Syrian refugees. He's asking all of us to do whatever we...

Rescuing the childhood of Afghan girls

While in other developing countries teenage girls are exploring and enjoying life, in Afghanistan, 57 per cent of girls are married before the age of 19...