Early marriage

I am RB. I am 14 years old. I live in Camp Ukhiya Cox’s Bazar.

I am writing about early marriage. Early marriage means a wedding between a young boy and a young girl before reaching puberty. The girls of the extreme poverty stricken families in the refugee Camps found to be married of before fifteen years.

The parents of these families cannot afford to educate their girls and cannot help them with self capabilities. As a result, the future generation of girls is ruined due to early marriage. These situations force the parents to get them married. Poverty plays the key role in the early marriage.

Education are also responsible for early marriage. Early marriage may break down their health. As a result they may suffer from malnutrition, anemia, insomnia, and many other diseases. They become the victims of growing old early. In such a condition of their health, weak babies are born with different complications.

So this destructive practice should be stopped. No girls should be married off before 18 and a boy before 21. The parents involved in early marriage should be motivated to stop this practice.

To encourage female education and to discourage early marriage the UNHCR has taken some positive steps, such as, giving scholarship to girls, recruiting more female teachers and sewing trainers etc.

If there is this arrangement in the camp, early marriage will be stopped.