Fight against child marriage
KEYS Organization engages against child marriage since many years and identified one of its members as Child Protection Worker. Currently, it is building an office to increase the visibility and accessibility of information on this topic. It raises awareness on this topic through the organization of advocacy and awareness meetings and workshops, which have already reached almost 2000 people. Moreover, it foiled potential and ended existing child marriages in over 20 cases. Elderly individuals caring for children are offered psychosocial counselling and essential items for everyday needs by the KEYS Organization and 14 persons were selected and trained as pre-school teachers.
Learn more about the activities of KEYS Organization against child marriage in this document:
In 2024, the Firelight Foundation selected the KEYS Organization as grantee partner. Being a grantee, KEYS Organization will receive financial support and capacity building through the Firelight Foundation for the next four years, helping them in their fight against child marriage through their approach of community-driven systems change (CDSC).
As a first or learning phase, KEYS Organization identifies the root causes for child marriage, identify key stakeholders to be involved and designing a methodology to collect information, compile the results of their research and their learnings. This includes capacity building events on how to write a proposal and budget. In the second or implementation phase, the developed strategies are put into practice to find and implement strategies to address the underlying issues that lead to the practice of child marriage. The community and the key stakeholders will be actively involved by KEYS Organization in all steps of this project.
