Interventions:

The International Center for Research on Women is helping to find solutions for this global issue. The ICRW's mission has been to help empower women, advance gender equality and fight poverty in the developing world for the last 35 years. ICRW works with private and public agencies to help change laws that restrict female growth, mainly child marriage. Efforts to change child marriage date back to the 1920s. In 1929, the Sarda Act was implemented to raise the age of marriage for girls from 14 years to 18 years. The current interventions being put into place are:

1. to start empowering these girls through information, skills, and networks.

• By empowering the girls, we are giving them resources, knowledge, and social networks to avoid isolation and to give them access to girls in similar situations. ICRW is giving girls the tools to earn and save their own money, stay healthy and safe during their pubescent and reproductive years, and to improve their self-efficacy.

2. to bring incentives and economic benefits to these girls and their families.

• Bringing money making opportunities through education for the family or loans can discourage families from marrying off their daughters at a young age. If the girls are seen as profitable for their family, they are more of a value to them.

3. to educate families, parents, and community members to rally together.

• Grandparents and elders are often the decision makers of when and whom a girl marries. If we educate these people, we can show them how big of an impact they can make on these young girl's lives. We can influence the parents to oppose this tradition instead of following it.

4. to give the girls a supreme education.

• When girls are in school, they are seen as less able to get married. Providing the girls with scholarships, uniforms, and access to education will give them more time to learn and advocate for their future.

5. to promote policies and laws in place that fight against child marriage.

• Informing government officials of the dangers of child marriage and how their laws can help put an end to this awful tradition.

(ICRW, 2013)

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Mission Statement: CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice. 

• Care works to stop gender inequality, help poverty stricken families, empower women and girls, and end violence to women.

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Mission Statement: Girls Not Brides aims to:

• Raise awareness of the harmful impact of child marriage by encouraging open, inclusive and informed discussion at the community, local, national and international level;

• Facilitate learning and coordination between organizations working to end child marriage; and

• Mobilize all necessary policy, financial and other support to end child marriage.

• We will be more effective in achieving our objectives by working together than by working alone. (Brides, G.N., 2002)

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MOOCs:

1. Teaching Without Borders: Education Girls- This is an online course for educators looking to further their knowledge of how to educate and empower girls. They are focusing world-wide on how to increase self-efficacy, knowledge of personal wellness (hygiene, reproductive, health, etc.), and equity. This class can also connect you with scholarships and access to go to another country to help with these public health issues. This course is offered through Teachers Without Borders, a non-profit, but taught by assistant professor, Fred Mednick, from John Hopkins University. (Mednick, 2000)