Girls are taking actions against child marriage

One of the significant activities of LIFE Nepal was review and implementation of plan of action of girls’ club/network because girls are taking actions against child marriage once they found in the community during their door-to-door home visit, follow up, and monitoring (based on their plan of action) by either calling at toll free number or making police complaints. In addition to that, they were engaged in the communities by organizing extra-curricular and awareness activities for stopping child marriage. They also have vowed to marry after 20 years only. This contributed in increasing awareness on ending child marriage and reducing the instances of child marriage in the project area as 105 cases of child marriage were reported in this reporting period. This has ultimately contributed to promote girls in education as drop out number of girls reduced from 142 in 2077 BS to 99 in 2078 BS. LIFE Nepal reviewed the plan of action of girls’ clubs that was developed previously and was in function. Through this, LIFE engaged 246 girls during this reporting period. In addition to this, LIFE followed to find the fact regarding how much local resources allocated by local governments in response to implement the plan of action of girls’ clubs. In the response, LIFE found that 90% of the planned activities of the girls’ club like conducting life skills sessions to parents and students, extracurricular and awareness activities on ending child marriage, door-to-door home visit, motivation and counselling for girls and parents etc. were successfully implemented and for that local governments allocated about NPR 500000.00.