City Desk :
Rural guardians at a training workshop laid emphasis on creating awareness and congenial environment in rural areas to stop the chronic social curse of child marriage.
They also stressed on creating friendly relations between guardians and their teenage daughters and improving adolescent health to flourish talent and leadership of the girl children for attaining the sustainable development goals (SDGs).
A number of guardians of different villages came up with the view at the workshop on ‘Role of guardians in preventing child marriage’ held on Thursday at Union Family Welfare Centre in Gopalpur union under Badarganj upazila in Rangpur. Plan International Bangladesh with assistance of Eco Social development organisation organised the workshop under Adolescent Advancing Health (A2H) project with financial assistance of the USAID.
Inspector Fatema Begum of Gopalpur Union Family Welfare Centre presided over the event and narrated objectives of the A2H project and activities being conducted under the project in building a child marriage free society. Community Facilitators of the A2H project Shahina Khatun, Rumi Akhter and Fakhrul Islam took part in the event as resource persons and delivered presentations discussing on the negative impacts of child marriage and way-outs.
Narrating his experience over the years, guardian Abdul Haque said early marriage led adolescents to shattered lives destroying their education, talent, future and causing neonatal, maternal and children deaths all the time in the pasts.
Another guardian Majibar Rahman stressed on launching a vigorous social renaissance involving the common people in rural areas against the social curse that has engulfed the backward rural people creating unrest in family life and society in most cases. Another participating guardian Sohrab Hossain called upon all guardians, marriage registrars, religious leaders and school teachers for working sincerely to prevent child marriage and ensure marriage registration through checking national identity cards.
In her concluding speech, Inspector Fatema Begum called upon the guardians for playing their most vital role in preventing child marriage through ensuring marriage registration properly in building a happier society in the process of attaining the SDGs.
Rural guardians at a training workshop laid emphasis on creating awareness and congenial environment in rural areas to stop the chronic social curse of child marriage.
They also stressed on creating friendly relations between guardians and their teenage daughters and improving adolescent health to flourish talent and leadership of the girl children for attaining the sustainable development goals (SDGs).
A number of guardians of different villages came up with the view at the workshop on ‘Role of guardians in preventing child marriage’ held on Thursday at Union Family Welfare Centre in Gopalpur union under Badarganj upazila in Rangpur. Plan International Bangladesh with assistance of Eco Social development organisation organised the workshop under Adolescent Advancing Health (A2H) project with financial assistance of the USAID.
Inspector Fatema Begum of Gopalpur Union Family Welfare Centre presided over the event and narrated objectives of the A2H project and activities being conducted under the project in building a child marriage free society. Community Facilitators of the A2H project Shahina Khatun, Rumi Akhter and Fakhrul Islam took part in the event as resource persons and delivered presentations discussing on the negative impacts of child marriage and way-outs.
Narrating his experience over the years, guardian Abdul Haque said early marriage led adolescents to shattered lives destroying their education, talent, future and causing neonatal, maternal and children deaths all the time in the pasts.
Another guardian Majibar Rahman stressed on launching a vigorous social renaissance involving the common people in rural areas against the social curse that has engulfed the backward rural people creating unrest in family life and society in most cases. Another participating guardian Sohrab Hossain called upon all guardians, marriage registrars, religious leaders and school teachers for working sincerely to prevent child marriage and ensure marriage registration through checking national identity cards.
In her concluding speech, Inspector Fatema Begum called upon the guardians for playing their most vital role in preventing child marriage through ensuring marriage registration properly in building a happier society in the process of attaining the SDGs.
