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By 24th February, 2015

27 जनवरी की सर्द सुबह. संस्थागत कार्यों से रांची होते दिल्ली जाने की तैयारी में था. वक़्त यही कोई सुबह के सात साढ़े सात बजे होंगे. अचानक मोबाइल ने बज...

In The Breakthrough Voice, हिंदी

जिले के आलाधिकारी की छोटी सी पहल ने देश बनाम बाल विवाह अभियान को दी एक नई दिशा

By 17th December, 2014

हजारीबाग जिला में ब्रेकथ्रू ने वर्ष २०१२ के जनवरी माह से बाल विवाह उन्मूलन हेतू कार्यक्रम प्रारंभ किया. लगभग दो वर्षों के सफ़र में हजारीबाग में जो भ...

In Impact Stories

Story of Change: Breakthrough workshop prevents early marriage

By 30th September, 2014

In 2013, Priyanka Kumari was as student of standard X in Upgraded High School Dharampur. As a student of this school she participated in one of Bre...

In In Focus

My Marriage – When The Nightingale Stopped Singing

By Breakthrough 11th September, 2014

I was sixteen years old. In my mind I could hear: “Tonight commotion is in my mind, tonight light is in my heart”—the song by Iranian singer Shakil...

In In Focus

Early Marriage: Turning 18 Is Different in Afghanistan

By Breakthrough 27th August, 2014

For a long time, Afghan families only worried about their sons turning 18 because the government would send them to war on the borders and they wou...

In In Focus

Early Marriage: Child Bride

By Breakthrough 27th August, 2014

Afsana, a beautiful child in the Ingil District of Herat Province, wanted to go outside and play with her friends, but instead she found herself in...

In In Focus

Early Marriage: Exchange for a cow

By Breakthrough 27th August, 2014

Several years ago in Pakistan in 2002, I taught fourth grade at a school in an Afghan camp. The school was supported by a German organization calle...

In In Focus

Early Marriage: Selling the daughters

By Breakthrough 27th August, 2014

When I think of early marriage — forced marriage — I become mad and helpless. I have no tolerance for it. I want to shout out loud, so that all cre...

In In Focus

Early Marriage: Not the only destiny

By Breakthrough 27th August, 2014

This is the second part of Early Marriage: Selling the Daughters. If graves and cemeteries could talk, they would tell the stories of those girls w...

In In Focus

Why the girls get sold

By Breakthrough 27th August, 2014

There is always news about Afghanistan on the Yahoo site and recently when I checked the site, a light blue title caught my attention. The news was...