Taking inspiration from IMAGE project in Bangladesh, supported by Royal Netherlands Embassy Dhaka, the IMAGE project was started in India.
It all started in 2018, when the Netherlands-based funding agency Terre des Hommes-Netherlands, deliberated upon supporting victims of child marriage in Karnataka, India with the assistance of its various NGO partners. With an ambitious aim to support girl children who are victims of child marriage, the IMAGE programme was instituted byTdH-NL and its partner NGOs. They have taken up a responsibility that could be life-changing; both for the early married girls targetted and the ‘at-risk’ girls population across India. With a deep understanding of the target population, their situation and the status of child marriage at large, the coalition members aim to ensure that their work reaps effective results.