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Your donations will help keep young girls in Yemen safe from child marriage and famine.
Your support provides food and educational opportunities.
Call to Action
You can help protect young girls from child marriage in war-torn Yemen, where more than two-thirds of girls are married as children. Through TYTW’s proven nutrition, education, and clean water initiatives which have provided over 100,000 meals to girls in Yemen, your gift will help keep vulnerable girls in school, safe from child marriage and other forms of gender-based violence. Just $15 provides a month of school breakfasts for a vulnerable girl. For some girls, their meal at school is the only meal they will eat in a day. Food insecurity and lack of access to education are two of the top drivers of child marriage.
Too Young to Wed’s Mission
Led by renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and activist Stephanie Sinclair, the mission of Too Young To Wed (TYTW) is to empower girls and end child marriage globally.
While child marriage occurs in almost all countries, and is not exclusive to any particular religion or society, TYTW focuses its programming in areas where child marriage is most egregious and underreported.
Your Kindness Now = Lasting Change For Generations
Your gift toward reducing child marriage will help to:
Protect girls from violence: When a girl is forced into marriage, she is robbed of her bodily autonomy, her opportunity to complete her education, and her physical and emotional wellbeing. She is subjected to early, forced, and frequent sexual relations, regardless of her own physical limitations, and more prone to serious health complications and injuries.
Increase girls’ lifespans: Child mothers under age 15 are five times more likely to die in childbirth than women in their twenties.
Improve infant health: Infants born to child mothers are at higher risk for health complications.
Strengthen academic performance and job readiness: Nutritious breakfasts for schoolchildren are linked to higher school completion rates, improved school attendance and retention, improved physical health and nutrition, improved class participation; and improved academic performance.
Position families for greater economic security: Girls who stay in school are better equipped to help support their families in later years.
Support the planet: Educated girls are more likely to make more environmentally-conscious choices, helping to reduce the effects of climate change.
You’re also driving generational change -- as each girl who evades child marriage is more likely to prevent her own children from marrying early.
Why Our Program Works
TYTW’s evidence-based model weaves together two highly effective, key program components to preventing child marriage: education, and food security.
The single-most effective way to keep girls out of child marriages is to keep them in school. Additionally, increasing vulnerable families’ access to food and water is proven to bring down child marriage rates in communities.
Nutritious School Breakfasts
Child marriage is often employed by families out of financial desperation, and only offers short-term economic relief. TYTW’s school nutrition program provides girls in need with a guaranteed healthy breakfast while incentivizing parents to value education over marriage. With our grassroots partner Solidarios Sin Fronteras (SSF), we provide a complete breakfast of bread, milk, fruit, and protein (egg, tuna, or cheese), designing meals based on the recommendations of a nutritionist.
Clean Water Initiative
As women and girls are tasked with collecting water, often from distant sources, they are at greater risk of violence. Women are most at risk of death from disease when pregnant, breastfeeding or malnourished, or because of their role as caretakers. Infant mortality has dropped significantly in the communities where we work with our partners to ensure clean water.
Yemen is one of the countries with the least water in the world. Before the war, each Yemeni had only 125 cubic meters per year compared to 2,500 world average or 1,250 in the Middle East and North Africa. The blockade has limited the entry of the essential fuel to extract water from the subsoil, which has led to massive water shortages. Since the start of the war, the price of drinking water has multiplied 200%. Additionally, since April 2017, Yemen has experienced the largest cholera epidemic in history, and there are more than 4 million displaced people in IDP camps without any basic water supply.
Why Yemen?
In Yemen, more than two-thirds of girls are married as children (UNICEF 2017), in what the UN has deemed the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Half a million children suffer from acute malnutrition.
Among COVID-19’s many health consequences, the pandemic has increased child hunger and malnutrition as resource scarcity worsens due to economic strife. The current conflict, and COVID-19, disproportionately hurt children and child marriage rates have skyrocketed, as families become desperate for one less mouth to feed.
In Yemen--the poorest country in the Arabian Peninsula even before the war--more than half a million pregnant women are at severe risk of dying from lack of food or complications during childbirth due to their precarious health situation. The conflict has had a disproportionate impact on children and has doubled the rates of child marriages. Girls in conflict areas are often forced to marry members of armed groups, and boys are vulnerable to recruitment as child soldiers due to prolific violence.
About Too Young to Wed and Solidarios Sin Fronteras
Too Young To Wed (TYTW) is a nonprofit organization that envisions a world where every girl can decide for herself, if, when and whom to marry; where adolescent girls are free to be children and teens with access to healthcare and all levels of education; and where all girls are free to determine the course of their own lives. To this end, TYTW’s mission is to empower girls and end child marriage globally. TYTW provides visual evidence of the human rights challenges faced by women and girls, amplifies their courageous voices, builds a global community dedicated to ending child, early and forced marriage, and inspires the global community to act—transforming influential advocacy into tangible action in the communities where the girls in our images live.
About Solidarity Without Borders (Solidarios Sin Fronteras)
SWB, our primary implementing partner in Yemen for the last three years, is a grassroots, primarily volunteer-run nonprofit organization providing emergency assistance (food, water, blankets, and hygiene products) to Yemeni families, especially those displaced from their homes as a result of the war. Before the pandemic, SWB provided daily meals in schools as an economic incentive for families to keep their children not only educated, but also protected from child marriages and recruitment as soldiers. SWB also runs a clean water provision program, as well as a home rebuilding program. In partnership with SWB, TYTW addresses poverty and protection issues, particularly for girls. To date, 1255 children have been provided daily school breakfasts, a critical incentive for families to send girls to school over marrying them too early in the midst of war and looming famine.
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Eid Mubarak from Too Young to Wed
Dear Friends,
Thank you for standing with Too Young to Wed (TYTW). Together, we're creating a brighter, safer future for many of the world's most vulnerable girls and their families. Let us continue to unite against child marriage and protect the dreams of every girl.
As we celebrate Eid al-Fitr, we extend our heartfelt thanks to all who have supported TYTW’s initiatives, including our current campaign Protect Innocence: End the Sale of Afghan Girls. Your generosity in these blessed days brings strength to our mission to empower girls and end child marriage.
Eid Mubarak!
The TYTW Team
May your blessings abound as you transform lives through your generosity in this Lailatul Qadr (Night of Power)
A Salaam Alikum brothers and sisters,
We hope that all of you experienced a blessed Ramadan.
As we draw near to Lailatul Qadr (the Night of Power), let’s open our hearts and extend our compassion to ensure that those fasting in marginalized communities have enough to eat. We encourage you to consider generously donating to TYTW’s initiative Protect Innocence: End the Sale of Afghan Girls | LaunchGood and earn Sadaqah Jareyah (continuous rewards) by spreading awareness among your family and friends. Your act of kindness provides crucial support to more than 15,000 at-risk Afghans currently benefiting from TYTW's Parwana Program, including girls like Sediqa.
Eight-year-old Sediqa is one of five girls in her family who were sold into marriage. Sediqa’s father, Shaistal, at the age of 42, left home in Badghis province with his wife and children in the hope of finding relief from war and drought. They had heard, falsely, they could receive assistance at Shahrak-e-Sabz camp. Shaistal quickly fell into debt while trying to provide for his family. Desperate, he resorted to selling one of his kidneys to a man in need. However, he soon fell ill from an infection and accrued even more debt to cover the resulting hospital bills. Ultimately, he felt he had no other option but to sell his daughters. During a survey of vulnerable families, TYTW promptly enrolled Sediqa’s family in its programming to safeguard Sediqa and her sisters, and provide their family with immediate food, vocational training, and livelihood opportunities.
Your generous Sadaqah/Zakaat can help Sediqa, her siblings, and thousands of girls in similar situations to stay safe and provide them with the necessary support to build a better future. TYTW’s Parwana Program provides case management and family sensitization on child marriage, food to help meet immediate needs, education programming for girls, and start-up capital and livelihoods training to many of the most vulnerable and hard-to-reach Afghan girls and their families.
Thank you for your generosity and for actively contributing to the protection of girls from mistreatment.
With gratitude,
The Too Young to Wed (TYTW) Team
Help End Child Marriage this Ramadan
Benazir, 10, seen here making bread.
Dear Friends,
Ramadan Mubarak!
We at Too Young to Wed (TYTW) are reaching out with profound thanks for your generous support of our past campaigns. We encourage you to visit the page of TYTW’s 2024 Ramadan campaign and learn more about some of the incredible families you can empower through your donations: Protect Innocence: End the Sale of Afghan Girls | LaunchGood
Your kindness has played a vital role in our mission to combat child marriage and protect girls like Benazir, pictured above. At just seven years old, Benazir was sold into marriage by her father. Burdened with the impossibility of feeding his eight children, her father saw no other choice. However, the generosity of supporters like you allowed TYTW to step in, and we successfully worked with the family and community leaders to annul Benazir’s marriage. Additionally, through our holistic family support programming, TYTW provided her father with vocational support to open his own shop -- bolstering the family’s self-reliance and paving the way for Benazir to pursue her dreams of education instead of being bound by the chains of child marriage.
Your generosity not only transforms lives like Benazir’s but also resonates as a ray of hope in our collective fight to end child marriage. Throughout this holy time, we encourage you to share our mission with your friends and family. Spreading the word about TYTW’s current campaign significantly amplifies the impact of your support, bringing us closer to a world where every young girl has the opportunity to thrive. Together, we can create lasting change for so many deserving girls just like Benazir.
In Solidarity,
The TYTW Team
Help End Child Marriage this Ramadan
Ramadan Mubarak!
We at Too Young to Wed (TYTW) are reaching out with profound thanks for your generous support of our past campaigns. We encourage you to visit the page of TYTW’s 2024 Ramadan campaign and learn more about some of the incredible families you can empower through your donations:
Protect Innocence: End the Sale of Afghan Girls | LaunchGood
Your kindness has played a vital role in our mission to combat child marriage and protect girls like Benazir, pictured above. At just seven years old, Benazir was sold into marriage by her father. Burdened with the impossibility of feeding his eight children, her father saw no other choice. However, the generosity of supporters like you allowed TYTW to step in, and we successfully worked with the family and community leaders to annul Benazir’s marriage. Additionally, through our holistic family support programming, TYTW provided her father with vocational support to open his own shop -- bolstering the family’s self-reliance and paving the way for Benazir to pursue her dreams of education instead of being bound by the chains of child marriage.
Your generosity not only transformes lives like Benazir’s but also resonates as a ray of hope in our collective fight to end child marriage. Throughout this holy time, we encourage you to share our mission with your friends and family. Spreading the word about TYTW’s current campaign significantly amplifies the impact of your support, bringing us closer to a world where every young girl has the opportunity to thrive. Together, we can create lasting change for so many deserving girls just like Benazir.
In Solidarity,
The TYTW Team
Missed our Virtual Holiday Fest? View it here!
A tremendous thank you from the entire TYTW team to everyone who tuned into our Virtual Holiday Fest to End Child Marriage this past weekend -- and to all of our wonderful supporters who make our work possible! If you missed the live event which featured Emmy Award winner Julianne Nicholson as emcee, performances from Grammy Award winner Sara Bareilles / acclaimed actor Joe Tippett and others, and inspiring speeches from trailblazers like Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Fawzia Koofi and LEARN co-founder Pashtana Durrani, you can still watch at this recording link.
We truly could not do any of this work without our incredible community, and we are so honored to celebrate you all. Thank you again to TYTW’s generous sponsors who have made this year’s impact possible: International Women’s Media Foundation, The Kendeda Fund, Isabel Allende Foundation, Stephanie Freid-Perenchio, Sum Of Us, David & Laura Merage Foundation, Sabrina Merage Foundation, World of Women, Mari Snyder Johnson, Every Mother Counts, Carol Ann Blinken Emquies, Mankind is my Business, Canon, John and Jenn Chen, Woodland Essence, friends Jean Smart, Kathy Bonk, Lynsey Addario, Rotary Club of Peekskill, and a number of incredibly generous anonymous donors.
With so much gratitude,
Stephanie and the TYTW Team
Join TYTW Saturday, December 11 at 12:00pm EST!
Join Too Young to Wed for our annual Virtual Holiday Fest! This year, we want to thank YOU for your incredible generosity and support throughout the last year. We are so grateful for this opportunity to unite our global community and share the impact of our programming--none of which would be possible without you.
Our 2021 Virtual Holiday Fest will be emceed by actress, activist, and TYTW Ambassador Julianne Nicholson, who was honored with an Emmy earlier this year for her captivating performance on Mare of Easttown. We’ll be sharing stories from some of our incredible Afghan evacuees like mountaineer Aqila Hashimi, pictured in the invitation photo, who climbed Mount Noshaq (7,482 meters high) as part of the first Afghan team with no foreign assistance.
Be inspired by Fawzia Koofi, First Female Deputy Speaker of Parliament and former Vice President of the National Assembly of Afghanistan; Pashtana Durrani, Executive Director of LEARN, our partner non-profit advocating for Afghan women and girls; and our partner Elisa Lees Muñoz, Executive Director of the International Women’s Media Foundation. We'll also enjoy performances by rapper Sonita Alizada, Grammy Award-winning artist Sara Bareilles and acclaimed actor Joe Tippett, along with more special guests to be announced!
This virtual event will safely unite our international community and provide an opportunity to raise funds supporting our programs for girls around the world. This year, we’ve championed girls and women in Kenya, Yemen, Nigeria, Nepal, Afghanistan, and India. Let’s support their futures together.
Please join us on December 11, and thank you for your attendance!
Tune into our livestream at one of these three locations:
https://www.facebook.com/TooYoungtoWed https://www.instagram.com/tooyoungtowed/ https://www.youtube.com/user/TooYoungtoWed
Eid Mubarak + Thank You!
Eid Mubarak to all our Muslim friends celebrating this evening. We wish you love, blessings and peace on this joyous day.
As Muslims around the world gather to celebrate, millions of Yemeni families are facing another bittersweet holiday, clouded by war and a global pandemic. Despite these enormous challenges, your amazing support for our campaign allows TYTW, in partnership with Solidarios Sin Fronteras, to provide clean water and thousands of life-saving breakfasts, keeping girls in school and safe from child marriage.
Your generosity is a lifeline for these beautiful girls.
Again, we sincerely thank you for your kindness and compassion.
Photo by Arwa Almaqtari for TYTW.
With gratitude,
Stephanie Sinclair and the TYTW Team
Yemeni Schoolgirls Express Themselves through Art
Drawings Courtesy Solidarity Without Borders.
Dear Friends,
We were heartbroken when we first saw these drawings by Yemeni schoolgirls as young as six, depicting jets dropping bombs, dead bodies, and other horrors of war. In the only way they could, these children were telling the world about the devastating violence and trauma they, and millions of others, have experienced during the ongoing conflict in Yemen. Many children have been forced to flee their home and watched as the war tore their families and communities apart. In addition to the emotional toll, it is estimated that more than two million Yemeni children remain out of school, further exposing them to risks including malnutrition, child marriage and other forms of gender-based violence.
TYTW in partnership with Solidarity Without Borders continues to provide clean drinking water and nutritious food to the most at-risk girls, keeping them in school and free from hunger. For some girls, it is the only meal they will eat in a day. Please consider sharing our LaunchGood campaign with friends and loved ones on this last day of Ramadan.
Again, we thank you tremendously for your kindness and compassion for these beautiful girls during this extremely difficult time. We look forward to the day when their drawings will reflect the peace, joy and beauty they deserve.
With gratitude,
Stephanie & the TYTW Team
New Program Photos Showing Your Impact!
Ramadan Mubarak! We hope this message finds you enjoying your time with loved ones during the holiday.
We are deeply inspired by your generosity during these difficult times for Yemen and the world. The TYTW team is so honored to have every one of you in this community; we welcome our new friends with so much gratitude, and celebrate those of you who have been kind enough to return to give to this project.
In this update, we are pleased to share some more original images illustrating the direct impact you are having each day on many of Yemen’s most vulnerable young girls. Photos by YPN Media.
As we approach the final and last odd night of Ramadan, please give and share with hopes that you will find the Night of Power.
Again, we thank you tremendously for your kindness and compassion.
Warmest wishes,
Stephanie Sinclair & the TYTW Team
Aya & Khadija: Our Breakfast Program Origin Story
Salaam Friends,
Ramadan Mubarak! We are deeply grateful for your generous contributions to this campaign supporting at-risk Yemeni schoolgirls and their families. To bring some context to your gift, we thought we’d share our program’s origin story.
In March 2018, eight-year-old Khadija had been attending her Sana’a school daily. Her family worked in a dairy factory near the school. When a bomb destroyed the factory, their household income immediately disappeared. Shortly afterwards, Aya, Khadija’s teacher, began to notice that the girl was becoming thinner and listless. Many days she dragged her feet and when at her desk, she sometimes didn’t even have the strength to hold her pencil properly or keep her head upright.
Soon Khadija stopped attending classes. The first day Aya thought she was sick, but as the days passed, the teacher became more concerned. Aya’s fears were correct: the family, destitute, could not feed their children. With no food at home, Khadija had been going to school on an empty stomach. The family was now considering the heartbreaking decision to arrange the young girl’s marriage in exchange for a dowry payment, hoping this would bring financial and, perhaps more importantly, give them one less mouth to feed.
However, Aya was determined to not let this be Khadija’s fate. She searched for a resolution eventually discovering an organization, Solidarity Without Borders, that provided food and water to those in need locally. Aya reached out and explained the situation: every day, fewer girls attended classes, and Khadija’s case was most heartbreaking as she was the youngest girl to be taken out of school by her family. From this meeting, "Breakfast for Education and Protection" was born and the schoolgirls were soon receiving daily nutritious breakfasts consisting of bread, milk, cheese, egg or tuna sandwich, and a piece of fruit.
With the program underway, Aya returned to the family and shared the good news. The father was doubtful, but the mother was not. She was also married very young, and had hoped to avoid a similar fate for her daughter.
The next day Khadija returned to school. The classroom energy, lively and joyful, was a far cry from what Khadija had left just a few weeks before. With nutritious food in their bellies, the girls were now laughing, jumping, shouting happily, and running. With shining eyes, the vitality had returned to their faces.
Like her classmates, Khadija is now attentive and engaged, no longer drowsy or sluggish. The difference the program has made in her daily life, and those in hundreds of other girls, has been profound.
You are behind the renewed energy and vigor of these beautiful, deserving girls. You are the difference between their futures as schoolgirls or child brides.
For the difference you make, we cannot thank you enough.
With blessings,
Stephanie & the TYTW Team
Aya & Khadija: Breakfast Program Origin Story
Salaam Friends,
Ramadan Mubarak! We are deeply grateful for your generous contributions to this campaign supporting at-risk Yemeni schoolgirls and their families. To bring some context to your gift, we thought we’d share our program’s origin story.
In March 2018, eight-year-old Khadija had been attending her Sana’a school daily. Her family worked in a dairy factory near the school. When a bomb destroyed the factory, their household income immediately disappeared. Shortly afterwards, Aya, Khadija’s teacher, began to notice that the girl was becoming thinner and listless. Many days she dragged her feet and when at her desk, she sometimes didn’t even have the strength to hold her pencil properly or keep her head upright.
Soon Khadija stopped attending classes. The first day Aya thought she was sick, but as the days passed, the teacher became more concerned. Aya’s fears were correct: the family, destitute, could not feed their children. With no food at home, Khadija had been going to school on an empty stomach. The family was now considering the heartbreaking decision to arrange the young girl’s marriage in exchange for a dowry payment, hoping this would bring financial and, perhaps more importantly, give them one less mouth to feed.
However, Aya was determined to not let this be Khadija’s fate. She searched for a resolution eventually discovering an organization, Solidarity Without Borders, that provided food and water to those in need locally. Aya reached out and explained the situation: every day, fewer girls attended classes, and Khadija’s case was most heartbreaking as she was the youngest girl to be taken out of school by her family. From this meeting, "Breakfast for Education and Protection" was born and the schoolgirls were soon receiving daily nutritious breakfasts consisting of bread, milk, cheese, egg or tuna sandwich, and a piece of fruit.
With the program underway, Aya returned to the family and shared the good news. The father was doubtful, but the mother was not. She was also married very young, and had hoped to avoid a similar fate for her daughter.
The next day Khadija returned to school. The classroom energy, lively and joyful, was a far cry from what Khadija had left just a few weeks before. With nutritious food in their bellies, the girls were now laughing, jumping, shouting happily, and running. With shining eyes, the vitality had returned to their faces.
Like her classmates, Khadija is now attentive and engaged, no longer drowsy or sluggish. The difference the program has made in her daily life, and those in hundreds of other girls, has been profound.
You are behind the renewed energy and vigor of these beautiful, deserving girls. You are the difference between their futures as schoolgirls or child brides.
For the difference you make, we cannot thank you enough.
With blessings,
Stephanie & the TYTW Team
Giving is better together! Your share could raise over 0.
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— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
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— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ