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Thirty student volunteers from the Chowara Girls High School in Comilla prepared
informational leaflets about the negative social consequences of early
marriage and distributed them door-to-door in their community, as part of their observance
of Global Youth Service Day 2006. By law, girls less than 17
cannot be married, but almost half of marriages in Bangladesh violate
this law.Citizenship & Youth Philanthropy Program and has been made possible with major funding from the United States State Department Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Global Catalyst Foundation.
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Citizenship & Youth Philanthropy Program and has been made possible with major funding from the United States State Department Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Global Catalyst Foundation. | |||||||||||