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Children put up posters to raise awareness of the practice of child marriage
The practice of girls marrying young still common in the sub-continent. For more than the last two decades efforts have been made, and are still being made, by various Government and non-governmental organisations to stop child marriage in Bangladesh. Plan Bangladesh has been working on awareness raising activities since 1995 to prevent child marriage through its different programme interventions from the beginning in 1995. .
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Plan Bangladesh has been working on preventing child marriage with Union Parishad, a Government body who provide services to the people living in rural areas, in almost all its Program Unit areas. All the villages under all the Unions of Jaldhaka Upazila in Nilphamari District were declared as a child marriage free villages on June 2010.
Children put up posters to raise awareness of the practice of child marriage
The practice of girls marrying young still common in the sub-continent. For more than the last two decades efforts have been made, and are still being made, by various Government and non-governmental organisations to stop child marriage in Bangladesh. Plan Bangladesh has been working on awareness raising activities since 1995 to prevent child marriage through its different programme interventions from the beginning in 1995. .
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Plan Bangladesh has been working on preventing child marriage with Union Parishad, a Government body who provide services to the people living in rural areas, in almost all its Program Unit areas. All the villages under all the Unions of Jaldhaka Upazila in Nilphamari District were declared as a child marriage free villages on June 2010.