Sixty-six percent of girls in Bangladesh are married under 18. Plan International is addressing this by supporting a children's organisation that works with local government and community-based organisations to create child marriage-free zones to stop early marriage.
The children call emergency meetings whenever they hear about a child marriage, they then visit the parents to discuss the issue and inform them of the negative impact that child marriage has on a girls. Working together with local authorities, the children's group has convinced the community that child marriage is not good and should be ended.