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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Fighting child marriage in India, thanks to school and a mobile phone

Fighting child marriage in India, thanks to school and a mobile phone

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published Published on Mar 27, 2022   modified Modified on Mar 28, 2022

-United Nations News

With the help of an innovative mobile phone service, UN agencies are working with the Government of Rajasthan, India, to combat child marriage.

The poster shows a tiny girl with braided hair, tied at the end with pink ribbons. Her face droops in despair as she walks next to an older man. The garlands around their necks indicate that they have just been wed.

She holds a little blackboard in her hand, with the first letters of the Hindi alphabet on it, a sign that she would rather be in school.

The next image shows another life for the girl: she is grinning happily, dressed for school, and sitting next to her smiling mother.

The message is simple, but effective: educate your children, stop child marriage.

Sapna’s story

The little girl in the Naubat Baja poster could well have been Sapna*, a young girl from Jaipur in her early teens. Even though she is still a minor, her family removed her from the classroom, and were preparing to marry her off, when Shreya*, a volunteer with Jeevan Ashram Sansthan (JAS), an NGO that works to empower women and girls, intervened.

Shreya knew about the Naubat Baja mission and had its phone number. In June 2021, she heard that a minor in Jaipur was to be wed to a 30-year-old man.

Sapna’s father had taken a loan from the man’s family. When he could not repay it, the lender – the would-be groom’s father – said he would write off the loan, if Sapna married his son.

Shreya called the helpline, and the police swung into action. The wedding was stopped. Sapna was sent to a shelter for two months, but is now back home and has gone back to the schoolroom.

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United Nations News, 27 March, 2022, https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/03/1114752


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