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Ending Child Marriage: Educate a Girl Child

Ending Child Marriage:   This photo shows 73-year old Rohaya Binti Muhammad (right) with her 15-year old husband in Southern Sumatra province, Indonesia Child marriage is one of the most painful subjects I have come across in my life. I cannot even begin to fathom what these innocent girls at a very young age have to go through this. I am very passionate about ending child marriage and informing the vast majority of the public and friends in the West who really have no clue.   Just recently, after so many years of battle, the Indonesian government raised the minimum age at which girls can marry from 16 to 19. The country has the eighth-highest number of child brides in the world according to the UN, this phenomenon should soon be a thing of the past.   According the UNICEF, United Nations’ children’s Fund, worldwide, more than 700 million women living today were married before the age of 18; of those, more than one in three women were wed before the age...