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Adolescent Girls Program:
In Bangladesh particularly in rural and urban slum
area adolescent girls are the most deprived group of all. They are
deprived of education, human rights, family and legal security. They are
neglected and sometimes ostracized, despite being productive members of
society with great future potential. During adolescence girls become a
social burden of their parents even while they accomplish many manual
responsibilities in poor families. To add some additional earnings for the
family, adolescent girls work as maid servants where they are poorly paid
and bitterly treated.
After their marriage, the adolescents bad and
un-livable life fraught with torture, desertion and divorce. Due to dowry
system and having no literacy and knowledge of legal rights, the yield to
the cruelties of their husband`s family in the most cases. Thus their
wedlock becomes a dead lock by napping their lives in the bud. Being fully
aware of the problems. Rainbow has taken up the initiative for the well
being of poor adolescent girls through launching a adolescents advancement
program of adolescent girls training`s where life based education is a
vital component.
The purpose of this training is to make the
adolescent girls aware of social exploitation, legal rights, concepts of
family development, hygienic sanitation, arsenic pollution, clean water,
leadership development, health, nutrition, mother care before and after
pregnancy, family planning, concept of marriage, early marriage and its
demerits, importance of marriage registration, divorce and ways and means
to check divorce, the persecution of women and law against it, child
abuse, concept of family court. Role of adolescent girls in the family
their participation in development activities. Rainbow has been running
adolescent girls development program since 2007.
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