As the CCP-led Breakthrough ACTION project closes, its director, Elizabeth Serlemitsos, discusses the legacy it leaves behind.
“You need to save the future of your daughters by educating them,” one girl told community members. “I urge mothers not to subject their children to the same fate they have experienced. Please do not marry them off early.”
New CCP research is meant to better understand what is behind the harmful practices of child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM) in Uganda.
As we look forward to 2024, CCP takes a look back at some of its most interesting stories from the past year.
In Malawi, 42 percent of girls are married before their 18th birthday. With the help of CCP, that is slowly changing.
Akiya Akhter, married as a teen, was able to postpone having a baby until she was 20. Aproma Marma, after losing her first child to malnutrition when elders insisted that she eat and sleep less during pregnancy, now has a healthy two-year-old. Mahbuba Siddiqua changed
“It may seem that it is only the adolescent girls are the victims of child marriage,” CCP’s Faisal Mahmud says. “But in reality, child marriage brings worse consequences to the family and to the whole nation.”
With the help of counseling provided by CCP, one teen convinced her parents to halt an arranged marriage so she could finish her education and delay pregnancy until she is older.
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