City Desk :
The chronic social curse of child marriage must be stopped to flourish latent talents and leadership of the girl children for attaining the sustainable development goals (SDGs).
The observation came yesterday at a workshop styled ‘Role of marriage registrars and matchmakers in preventing child marriage’ held at the LAMB Office in Gangachara upazila town in Rangpur.
LAMB under its Adolescent Advancing Health (A2H) project organised the workshop with financial assistance of the USAID and technical cooperation of Plan International Bangladesh (PAB) for marriage registrars, matchmakers, Imams and Purohits of Gangachara upazila.
Representative of LAMB Uttam Kumar Sarker presided over the workshop and delivered welcome speech narrating goals and objectives of the A2H project and activities being conducted under in building a child marriage free society.
He also discussed on negative impacts of child marriage that shatters life hindering education of the girl children in becoming worthy citizens and the way-outs to eradicate the chronic social curse from the society.
Filed Facilitator at Gangachara upazila office of LAMB Anjuman Ara Begum as the resource person took part in the workshop moderated by its MIS Coordinator Chandra Kishore Roy. Anjuman Ara Begum said early marriage leads the adolescents to shattered and catastrophic lives destroying their education, talent, future and causing neonatal, maternal and children deaths in rural areas.
She laid special emphasis on launching a social renaissance involving the common people against the curse that has engulfed the backward rural people also creating unrest in family life and society.
Uttam Kumar Sarker called upon the participants for preventing child marriage through ensuring marriage registration and checking national identity cards properly in building a happier society by attaining all targets of the SDGs.
The chronic social curse of child marriage must be stopped to flourish latent talents and leadership of the girl children for attaining the sustainable development goals (SDGs).
The observation came yesterday at a workshop styled ‘Role of marriage registrars and matchmakers in preventing child marriage’ held at the LAMB Office in Gangachara upazila town in Rangpur.
LAMB under its Adolescent Advancing Health (A2H) project organised the workshop with financial assistance of the USAID and technical cooperation of Plan International Bangladesh (PAB) for marriage registrars, matchmakers, Imams and Purohits of Gangachara upazila.
Representative of LAMB Uttam Kumar Sarker presided over the workshop and delivered welcome speech narrating goals and objectives of the A2H project and activities being conducted under in building a child marriage free society.
He also discussed on negative impacts of child marriage that shatters life hindering education of the girl children in becoming worthy citizens and the way-outs to eradicate the chronic social curse from the society.
Filed Facilitator at Gangachara upazila office of LAMB Anjuman Ara Begum as the resource person took part in the workshop moderated by its MIS Coordinator Chandra Kishore Roy. Anjuman Ara Begum said early marriage leads the adolescents to shattered and catastrophic lives destroying their education, talent, future and causing neonatal, maternal and children deaths in rural areas.
She laid special emphasis on launching a social renaissance involving the common people against the curse that has engulfed the backward rural people also creating unrest in family life and society.
Uttam Kumar Sarker called upon the participants for preventing child marriage through ensuring marriage registration and checking national identity cards properly in building a happier society by attaining all targets of the SDGs.
