{"id":172,"date":"2017-08-25T11:23:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T11:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rdflwomen.org\/eng\/?p=172"},"modified":"2017-08-25T11:23:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T11:23:45","slug":"adolescent-syrian-girls-empowered-to-mitigate-early-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rdflwomen.org\/eng\/adolescent-syrian-girls-empowered-to-mitigate-early-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Adolescent Syrian girls empowered to mitigate early marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy to welcome representatives of the embassy of Canada during the 2nd day of the intensive 8 days training workshop about child marriage targeting adolescent girls from\u00a0#<\/span>Syrian<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0community in\u00a0#<\/span>Lebanon<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Those 25 girls, between 13 and 18 years old, are being trained to become leaders capable of disseminating information on early marriage to their peers, and work towards mitigating and responding to early marriage in their communities.<\/p>\n

This workshop is within \u201cEnhanced families and service providers capacities to promote safe motherhood and empower women and girls in #Lebanon\u201d project, funded by the Government of Canada and implemented by The Lebanese Women Democratic Gathering-RDFL in partnership with UNFPA.
\nCanada\u2019s International Development \u2013 Global Affairs Canada<\/a>\u00a0Embassy of Canada to Lebanon<\/a>\u00a0UNFPA Lebanon<\/a>\u00a0UNFPA<\/a>\u00a0#<\/span>Canada<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0#<\/span>SRHR<\/span><\/span><\/a>#<\/span>HerVoiceHerChoice<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0#<\/span>EndChildMarriage<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy to welcome representatives of the embassy of Canada during the 2nd day of the intensive 8 days training workshop about child marriage targeting adolescent girls from\u00a0#Syrian\u00a0community in\u00a0#Lebanon. Those 25 girls, between 13 and 18 years old, are being trained to become leaders capable of disseminating information on early marriage to their peers, and work …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[12],"tags":[57,56,54,50,35,41,40,36,52,33,51,14,8,19,55,58,59,53,46,6],"post_format":[49],"flags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rdflwomen.org\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/pic2.jpg?fit=5148%2C2403&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa0Zsl-2M","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137,"url":"https:\/\/www.rdflwomen.org\/eng\/rdfl-submits-a-draft-law-aiming-to-protect-children-in-lebanon-from-early-marriage\/","url_meta":{"origin":172,"position":0},"title":"RDFL submits a draft law aiming to protect children in Lebanon from early marriage","date":"April 5, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"When a young girl is pushed into marriage, the damage can last long after her wedding day. 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