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#ChildMarriageFreeIndia

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AN APPEAL BY 

NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE

KAILASH SATYARTHI

23.3%

of women aged 20-24 years got married before 18
(NFHS 5)

12 million

children married before attaining legal age of marriage; 5.5 million girls married before the age of 18
(Census 2011)

1050 Cases (1062 Victims)

of child marriage registered in 2021
(NCRB 2021)
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More than 19 million people, led by over 76,000 women leaders from 7,588 villages across 500+ districts

Smt. Sumedha Kailash, Founder, Bal Ashram Trust inspiring community to fight for
#ChildMarriageFreeIndia

ABOUT CHILD MARRIAGE FREE INDIA CAMPAIGN

Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation (KSCF), founded by the Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi will launch a Pan-India campaign on creating Child Marriage Free India. This initiative is planned to run for about 3 years, covering at least 5,000 villages and engaging with more than 10 million citizens across the country to spread the message on fight against child marriage. The primary objective of the campaign is to reduce child marriages by 10% from the current level of 23.3% by end of the campaign in 2025. 

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In Action

We believe that together, we can reach our goal of making India Child Marriage Free.  Therefore, we collaborated with NGOs, Government Officials, individual partners, universities and volunteers across India to raise voice against the millennia-old tradition.  Here are some updates!

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What You Can Do

Be a part of our nationwide campaign against child marriage and ensure
that every child is in school. 

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You can join the campaign and take a pledge by lighting a candle/diya at a prominent location of your village/household/community, post shoutout messages on your social media handles by using #ChildMarriageFreeIndia hashtag.

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If you are passionate about the cause, come forward and write to us on nochildmarriage@satyarthi.org 

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Click on the donate button to contribute to our #ChildMarriageFreeIndia Campaign

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