Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage, Girls First Fund and VOW for Girls join forces with Amal Clooney, Melinda French Gates, and Michelle Obama to End Child Marriage.
On behalf of Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage, Girls First Fund and VOW for Girls.
In the time it has taken to read this article 35 girls under the age of 18 have been married
Each year, 12 million girls are married before the age of 18
That is 23 girls every minute
Nearly 1 every 2 seconds
About the authors
Girls Not Brides
Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage is a civil society partnership of over 1600 organisations in more than 100 countries working together to end child marriage. Over the last decade, Girls Not Brides have built global and national ecosystems for change, fostering global and national collective action for policy change and implementation.
Girls First Fund
Girls First Fund is a funding partnership dedicated to radically expanding resources to underfunded national and community-based organisations working to address child marriage and gender inequality in their communities. The first donor collaborative of its kind, Girls First Fund supports its partners through core, flexible and long-term funding, alongside targeted mentoring and knowledge-sharing to end child marriages and influence positive change at the individual, community, and policy levels.
VOW for Girls
VOW for Girls is a global movement that partners with brands, individuals, and the wedding industry to end child marriage. Creating innovative partnerships for change, VOW for Girls works to fill funding gaps to ensure that grassroots organisations working to end child marriage are sustainably resourced to effect change in their communities.