Girls Not Brides Coalition
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Funds community outreach in a country with one of the world's highest recorded rates of child marriage.
Why this matters in Niger
About three in four young women in Niger were married before their 18th birthday, according to UNICEF, the highest rate recorded anywhere, and more than a quarter before 15. The Civil Code allows girls to marry at 15, and most marriages take place under customary and religious practice rather than civil law. Rates are highest in rural Maradi and Zinder, where farming households face repeated food shortages and a bride's family receives a marriage payment that can ease immediate needs.
Early marriage usually ends a girl's schooling and is quickly followed by pregnancy, which carries high risks for adolescent mothers. Outreach matters because the decision rests with fathers, mothers, religious leaders and village chiefs; when those voices shift, a girl's prospects shift with them. Since the 2023 coup, cuts and suspensions in international aid have made sustained community work harder to fund.
What your gift pays for
- Community dialogues with parents, religious leaders and village chiefs on the harms of early marriage
- Safe-space sessions where adolescent girls learn about health, rights and their options
- Support for girls to stay in or return to school, including supplies and fees
- Training for local child-protection committees that identify and respond to planned marriages
Organization
Plan International Niger · Niger
IRS (EIN) (parent: Plan International USA) · No. 13-5661832
Founded 1998 · Headquarters: Niamey
Plan International's Niger office runs programmes to reduce child, early and forced marriage, including a USAID-funded grant.
How they work: Plan International works in Niger through community structures: it trains village child-protection committees, organizes girls into groups that meet regularly with trained facilitators, and holds sessions for parents and for boys and men. Traditional and religious leaders are engaged directly, since their positions carry weight in marriage decisions. Plan also links these community structures to government social services and supports girls' schooling and economic skills as practical alternatives to early marriage.
Track record: From 2022 Plan ran the $2.53m two-year GirlEngage Niger project to prevent child marriage, targeting 2,400 girls and their parents in Maradi, Tillaberi and Zinder.
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Giving in Niger
Women and girls are the focus of two of the three causes in Niger. Plan International runs community outreach in a country with one of the world's highest recorded rates of child marriage, and CARE Niger funds shared processing equipment for women-run agricultural cooperatives. The third, through the World Food Programme, distributes emergency food rations where armed conflict has displaced farming communities in the middle of planting season, part of wider insecurity across the Sahel.
3 causes are listed in Niger, each with its own verified organization. $242,705 has been distributed to causes in Niger since 2021.
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