What Speaks to Me

In Flight

Namibia, 2010

Vast

Namibia, 2010

Strength

Namibia, 2010

Patterns

Giraffes - at the Giraffe Center outside of Nairobi, Kenya

Peaking In

Community members look through the window as young married girls learn about the Photo Voice project they are about to participate in. Photovoice Project, April 2013

Where do I look through?

A young married girl is learning how to use a camera. Photovoice Project, April 2013

Wonder

Young married girls are learning how to use a camera while their program leaders assist them. Photovoice Project, April 2013

Totally New

This is the first time each of these girls had ever used a camera, however they learned quickly. Photovoice Project, April 2013

Beyond

As a result of the program, at least 70 early marriages were stopped, indicating that the community was beginning to understand the harmful consequences of early marriage. Looking over the rugged landscape from the top of Mt Tabor, in Debre Tabor, Ethiopia.

Vivid Blue

A gorgeous succulent from Santa Catalina Monastery, Arequipa Peru

Too Young to Wed

The TESFA project worked to improve economic and sexual and reproductive health outcomes for the highly marginalized population of child brides – married, divorced and widowed adolescent girls. A portrait of a young married girl in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia

Let Me See

Education has found to be protective against child marriage. Girls who finish secondary school are less liekly to be married before the age of 18 and will have fewer children over the course of their life. Young girls peak through a window of the school in their village, outside of Debre Tabor, Ethiopia Young girls peak through a window of the school in their village, outside of Debre Tabor, Ethiopia

Where Do I Look Through?

A young married girl is learning how to use a camera for a photovoice project near Debre Tabor, Ethiopia

Me too please

Young kids pose for the camera in the streets of Debre Tabor, Ethiopia. April 2013