Too Young To Wed

In Pakistan, we are working with vulnerable Afghan refugee families to protect them from gender-based violence. Our services including case management, food security, livelihood support, transitional housing, family sensitization against child marriage, and mental health support.

TYTW’s Butterfly Project aims to reduce gender disparity among historically excluded girls, beginning at age 9, who are at risk of child marriage, FGM and other harmful practices in Samburu County. The program reaches girls through financial literacy classes, mentorship, and social and health programming. We also provide a STEM career readiness program in coding instruction for girls. As technology transforms the job market worldwide, we are preparing girls in Kenya to be competitive in a fast-moving area..

In Yemen, our implementing partner Solidarios Sin Fronteras (SSF), continues to provide clean water and free nutritious breakfasts to 1590 children every day, often the only food these children will eat in a day. These free meals are keeping girls in school and helps protect them from child marriage.

In Nigeria, we support abduction survivors of Boko Haram, some of the most traumatized women and children in the world, with vocational and financial assistance.

In 2021 we expanded our Nepal Leadership Scholarship program by 30% to reach 28 high-risk children, who might otherwise be married as teens. We have also provided emergency housing assistance and reconstruction in the aftermath of Nepal’s natural disasters.

Empowering women and girls is ranked as one of the most promising solutions for reducing climate change. Studies show that girls who wait to get married have fewer children, leading to more sustainable population growth. Also, educated girls are more likely to become leaders, and nations with higher percentages of females in leadership roles are more likely to adopt environmentally-friendly laws and policies.

TYTW continues its prominent global advocacy campaigns in partnership with renowned media outlets, in order to drive global awareness and resources toward ending child marriage and empowering vulnerable girls. We have decades-long relationships with respected media partners to help us distribute the stories of child brides globally. Through these partnerships, we have reached billions of viewers in the last 15 years.

Our Tehani Photography Workshops brings child marriage survivors and at-risk communities together in a five-day empowering retreat setting where they work together telling their own stories, overcoming trauma, and learning skills to become tomorrow’s leaders in the fight for girls’ rights.