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Thea’s marriage to Geir isn't real. However, the 39Thousand women which are married every day before turning 18 is real. Greater than two from every three women are married before 18 in Chad, Niger and also the Central African Republic. It's a global problem that some predict might find 142 million women married before turning 18 within this decade.

The campaign by Plan Norwegian is supposed to provoke and illustrate the worldwide problem of kid marriage. It's working. Greater than 660Thousand unique site visitors from Norwegian have visited Thea’s blog. That signifies roughly 12 % from the country’s population.

A number of individuals have been duped through the blogs. And also you can’t blame them. The candid blogs describe all of the ways Thea is being prepared for her wedding. Among explanations of cakes and makeup, Thea describes the difficulties to as being a child bride and just how it'll disrupt her existence.

Some site visitors believe it is real. Recent posts are full of comments supplying serious advice and feedback to Thea. Plan Norwegian hopes the outrage in regards to a potential child bride in Norwegian could be channeled to child marriage all over the world.

“Actually I’m not so happy today simply because I and my mother just quarrelling. I requested her basically could request Sara and Annikenin wedding since i achieve this would like them in the future to allow them to realize that we are able to remain buddies despite the fact that I’m marriage and never see in school every single day, ” creates Thea inside a converted publish.

“To open your eyes of Norwegians to those tragic details, we wanted to consider strong measures. And then we made the decision to place the brutal reality inside a Norwegian context, to ensure that the entire population takes an energetic position helping in fighting against child marriage. It has proven to become a extremely effective method of telling the tales, ” stated Annika Diseth Yri, an agenda Norwegian communications staffer, via email.

Site visitors towards the blog are forwarded to Plan International’s “Because I'm a Girl” campaign. The top blog reads “Stopp Bryllupet” (steer clear of the wedding) and supply links towards the campaign, Plan’s work and just how to sponsor a woman. They're urged to participate the campaign to prevent child marriage and share it through social networking using the #stoppbryllupet tag.

The Because I'm a Girl campaign has arrived at greater than ten million people, stated Yri. She needs global attention for that wedding a few days ago, including television shops from Russia and Germany. The run-to the wedding was covered now by Buzzfeed and also the Independent.