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CHILD BRIDES: DOLLS INSTEAD OF HUSBANDS

GOAL: To send 10,000 dolls to Legislators in 10 countries and ask them to give the dolls to the young girls they are marrying off. Countries include: India, China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Ethiopia, Yemen, Mali,  Mozambique, Uganda.

ACTION: Create your own POP page or if you are alread a member, join the "Dolls Instead of Husbands" group then:

1. Help us get 10,000 dolls to legislators in 10 countries named above and demand that they put them in the hands of the young girls. These girls are sometimes as young as 8 years old and should be sleeping with dolls not husbands. Email us to get your schools and organizations involved in helping us. All our dolls are bought from Fair Trade artisans and help sustain community development in poorer countries.

2. Donate so that we can reach our goal of getting 10,000 dolls into the hands of young girls who are being married off at ages as young as 8 years old.

OVERVIEW: In countries like India, China, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, Pakistan, Afghanistan and more , it is common – percentages often run as high as 40-50% – for girls to be married at ages as young as 8 years old. Legend says that 1000 years ago, invaders raped unmarried Hindu girls or carried them off as booty, prompting Hindu communities to marry off their daughters almost from birth to protect them. Today, these invaders have been replaced by superstition: the local view that any girl reaching puberty without getting married will fall prey to sexual depredations, which ignores the fact that relations with young girls is depredation in itself. In Asian and African countries and India too, there is also the common belief that having sex with a "fresh" girl can cure syphilis, gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS.

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