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Blog: A story of child marriage free communities, football and education
Blog by Steve Smith Along a dusty narrow road, bustling with mopeds and small transport buses overflowing with commuters, you will find the local Health Centre situated high on the slopes of Freetown. It is there that we meet our local partner in the HER CHOICE Programme – One Family People (OFP) – a well-established and respected NGO operating in…
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Children as Researchers in Ethiopia
ICDI’s Rutger van Oudenhoven conducted a workshop on Children As Researchers for our Ethiopian partner Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). Participants were teachers, student club leaders and social workers. They learned practical skills as asking research questions, interview skills, observations and presenting research findings. Participants will in turn train and support 20 girls who will do research in their own…
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Monitoring and training visit to Sierra Leone on child marriage
ICDI’s Steven Smith and Mathijs Euwema are in Sierra Leone this week to visit our HER CHOICE partner One Family People. HER CHOICE aims to build child marriage-free communities in eleven countries. Besides programme management and monitoring, Steven and Mathijs will visit a health center which provides SRHR training (Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights) for health and community workers. Purpose of this visit is to meet…
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Nog steeds kindhuwelijken in Nederland
Twee jaar na de invoering van de wet Tegengaan Huwelijksdwang, waarmee er een verbod is gekomen op kindhuwelijken, zijn er nog steeds jongens en meisjes onder de 18 die, al dan niet gedwongen, trouwen. Er vinden naar schatting jaarlijks 250 kindhuwelijken plaats in Nederland. Het komt met name voor in gesloten gemeenschappen, zoals de Syrische, Marokkaanse,…
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BLOG: Child Marriage Linking and Learning Forum Bangkok, by Giulia Cortellesi
I visited Thailand over ten years ago as part of a holiday and when ICDI decided to organize the Her Choice Partners Forum in Bangkok, I was very excited by the opportunity to go back to Thailand after so many years. My memories of Thailand were mainly about tasty food, smiling and welcoming people, beautiful…
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Quote of the day: linking and learning event on child marriage
Sony Piya, CWIN, Nepal “The Poster Session this morning worked really well for me. One of the ideas that I heard about was the door to door social campaign in Pakistan which involves young people stenciling a visible permanent mark on the front of each house where families have committed not to marry off their daughters while they…
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Quote of the day: linking and learning event on child marriage in Bangkok
Jayanta Kar, The Hunger Project, Bangladesh. ” A big revelation for me at this mornings session was discovering that extreme stress of a mother can affect the development of her baby in the womb. Also after what I learned today about how babies learn in the first two years of life I have a new view about…
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Quote from day 2: linking and learning event on child marriage Bangkok
Emebet Mulugeta and Kidanu Gebre, both Project Officers for ICDI partner organization Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), from Ethiopia. Emebet: “This linking and learning meeting is a wonderful event in my life. It is the first time I have travelled outside Ethiopia and my first time to meet people from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal. I really like the interactive…
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Quote of the day: linking and learning event on child marriage Bangkok
From Anbreen Ajaib, Executive Director, Bedari “I was excited to hear from Mieke Vogels (Foreign Affairs) about the commitment the Dutch government has shown to ending violence against women and improving Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). The fact that she is here and the Ministry will continue to prioritise SRHR is evidence of this…
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ICDI organizes ‘linking and learning’ event on child marriage for partners in Bangkok
Next week, worldwide partners within the HER CHOICE programme – creating child marriage-free communities – will meet in Bangkok. ICDI organizes a five day linking and learning event to bring professionals together to build relationships, develop strategies and to learn skills in developing psychological well-being of children growing up in these difficult circumstances. Attendees are colleagues…
