As the state government of Karnataka announced the reopening of schools, 7-year-old Anitha is filled with joy. Joy not just to meet her friends who she hasn’t met in two years but the joy to see the opportunity of getting an education, unlike her two elder sisters who were forced into child marriage when the […]
On November 1, 2021, IMAGE celebrated Child Marriage Prohibition Day in Bagalkote, Chikkaballapura, and the Chamarajanagara districts of Karnataka. The day was full of rallies, games, and activities to raise awareness and voices against child marriage. Officials from the government were honored and invited as special guests to the event. The children raised slogans against […]
In 2020, Divya* from a village in Belagavi, Karnataka was excited about writing her Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) exam. Clearing this examination would be more than a milestone for the 17-year-old as she had to stop her education when she was married at the age of 14. “I was really upset that I […]
Mangala is a fourteen-year-old from a village in Karnataka who was married at the age of 9 years when she was studying in 3rd standard. Her family has 9 members, Mangala being the third eldest daughter out of seven. She was married off at a very young age like her elder sisters because the family […]
Nayana is a 17-year-old from a small village in North Karnataka. She got married at the age of 14 when she was studying in class nine. In the initial days of her married life, she faced a lot of challenges but that didn’t stop her from pursuing her studies. She even secured 80% in the […]
CategoriesBlog Success Stories“I have been physically assaulted by my in-laws so many times that I have lost count”, says adolescent Raghavi* from a village in Belagavi, India. Married at the age of twelve, Raghavi began facing abuse during the time of her first pregnancy. She was just 15 then. “The first time my mother-in-law beat me was […]
CategoriesBlog COVID-19 updates Success StoriesJust when the child marriage of a 12-year-old Sneha* was about to take place, the Regional Secretariat staff of Bagalkot, Karnataka, accompanied by the movement leaders of our IMAGE project against child marriages, reached the venue and stopped it. Sneha, who has grown up seeing her cousins get married at the age of 10 to […]
CategoriesBlog Success StoriesDevamma from South Karnataka is an extremely young mother at the age of fourteen. Devamma has been in a constant state of struggles since childhood as her father left her mother because she gave birth to three girls. This caused her mother to take her own life followed by which Devamman had to shift into […]
CategoriesBlog COVID-19 updates Success StoriesWe are well aware of the challenges Covid-19 brought especially in the lives of students. They couldn’t go to schools or colleges, their classroom became a zoom room and regular socializing became social distancing. Education truly became a challenge. But what about the children whose lives were always a challenge? How did they study? Have […]
On 11th January 2021, Children of India Foundation (IMAGE partner)hosted an Instagram live discussion to create awareness on the issue of Human Trafficking with Rescue Foundation (Mumbai) and Girls Advocacy Alliance (Karnataka). The discussion was attended by more than 100 people via Instagram. Mr Thangaperumal Popandi (Country Manager, TdH-NL) hosted the panellists- Miss Manika Khandelwal (Assistant […]
