Early Childhood Education

Yashoda Kumari is a Class 10 student at U.H.S. Dhanaydih. The family is sustained by daily labour performed by her father in Jamshedpur. At the age of 17 while Yashoda prepared for her board examinations, her parents decided to get her married. They were concerned about the issues of dowry and the safety of their daughter.
Jago’s team member came to know of this information from other teenagers. With the cooperation of the community members, teachers and the Panchayat the importance of education and the legal ramification of child marriage were explained to her parents. This persuaded Yashoda’s parents not to go ahead with the child marriage.
Yashoda is very happy with this and has resumed preparations for the board examination. At the same time, the morale of other teenagers of the Kishori group has increased and they are ready to stop such child marriages even further.
Child marriage can be easily prevented due to timely information about child marriage and the cooperation of responsible people.