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This document page, stamped with HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019438, appears to be a printout of an article or report detailing humanitarian efforts to end child marriage and empower women. It highlights the work of AJWS (American Jewish World Service) and partner NGOs like Brac and the Mohammad Bazar Backward Classes Development Society in regions such as Uganda and West Bengal. While included in a House Oversight batch, the specific text on this page focuses solely on development goals and NGO activities without direct mention of Epstein.
People (3)
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| Ban Ki-moon | UN Secretary General |
Appointed a high-level panel to look at development targets.
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| Javid Syed | Asia programme officer for AJWS |
Quoted regarding the organization's work building girls' aspirations.
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| Zeenat | Beneficiary |
A woman whose life was changed by AJWS vocational training.
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Organizations (6)
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| Care |
Partner organization working with local NGOs.
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| AJWS |
American Jewish World Service; working on female empowerment and ending child marriage.
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| UN |
United Nations; looking at development targets.
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| Girls Not Brides |
Global partnership formed in September 2011 to end child marriage.
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| Brac |
Bangladeshi NGO creating clubs in Uganda.
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| Mohammad Bazar Backward Classes Development Society |
Organization in West Bengal backed by AJWS.
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Location where Brac has created clubs for girls.
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Location of Mohammad Bazar Backward Classes Development Society.
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Urban area where the society works with marginalised women.
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Rural area where vocational training is provided.
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Relationships (2)
Javid Syed, Asia programme officer for AJWS
Backed by AJWS, Mohammad Bazar Backward Classes Development Society...
Key Quotes (1)
""We work to build girls' aspirations, promote girls' ideas of themselves when they don't have aspirations, and engage with key decisionmakers – parents, teachers and religious leaders," said Javid Syed"Source
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materials. It also convinced a food catering business not to cater for child marriage ceremonies.
For Care and AJWS, the logical route is to work through local partners familiar with regional conditions and practices, and based where the pressure points are. For the local NGOs, it shows they are not working alone on a difficult problem only now receiving the attention it merits.
The UN high-level panel appointed by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, to look at development targets to replace the millennium development goals when they expire in 2015, has urged the recognition of child marriage as a key indicator of female empowerment. In another sign that child marriage is moving up the development agenda, Girls Not Brides, the global partnership to end child marriage, was formed in September 2011 to tackle the problem.
Empowerment can come through that catch-all term, livelihoods training. Groups such as Brac, the Bangladeshi NGO, for example, have created clubs in Uganda where young girls learn to develop confidence through storytelling and songwriting. They also learn more practical skills, from financial literacy and tailoring to agricultural work.
Backed by AJWS, Mohammad Bazar Backward Classes Development Society in West Bengal takes a similar approach. The organisation, which works with marginalised Muslim and tribal women and children in urban Kolkata, runs a school for girls as well as vocational training for women in the rural area of Birbhum.
"We work to build girls' aspirations, promote girls' ideas of themselves when they don't have aspirations, and engage with key decisionmakers – parents, teachers and religious leaders," said Javid Syed, Asia programme officer for AJWS.
AJWS helped change Zeenat's life. It provided her with vocational training, allowing her to become financially independent and diminishing the likelihood that economic need will turn her towards another abusive marriage. If Zeenat does marry again, the hope is that she will have the support of her family and the ability to leave the marriage if she chooses, in full knowledge of her rights.
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