This is a UK-based charity run by Ethiopian former child wives.
As our experiences have shown, a former child wife may leave Ethiopia and move to the UK and other western developed countries, but she cannot leave behind the multiple consequences of child marriage on her life.
Neither can she naturally outgrow these consequences, whether she is living in the UK or Ethiopia because she missed the fundamental UN Millennium Development Goal, No 2 and did not "complete a full course of primary schooling."
Without basic education, all other UN Millennium Development Goals are alien concepts to the former child wife. The individual and the community in which she lives are affected by her experiences.
This charity is working to limit the impacts of child marriage on individuals and society in which they live.
At No 10 Downing Street. A Message for the Prime Minister
30.July 2011. The representatives of the ‘Former Child Wives’ Foundation’, also known as the ‘Campaign Against Child Marriage in Ethiopia’ are received at the British Prime Minister’s Office at No 10 Downing Street to present a petition regarding child marriage and the UN Millennium Development Goals.
Video on Child Marriage
The former Child Wife who alerted UK Parliament
Alemtsahye (Alem) Gebrekidan
I was married at 10. While 12 years old girls in the UK and other developed countries were starting in High School, mastering computer skills and passing time by playing with baby dolls; I was already a married mother, juggling child-care with other domestic chores including walking long distances to look for food and water for my husband and children.
