The HUMAN ACCESS team in the Safe Space in Shabwa Governorate, in partnership with the UNFPA, as part of the Protection and Livelihood Support Project for Women and Girls in Ataq district, conducted community awareness sessions for students of the Higher Institute of Health Sciences about the harms of early marriage.
The awareness included the social and psychological effects, as well as the health and physical effects on girls, as early marriage poses a major threat to girls' health and exposes them to symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and symptoms of depression. Early marriage affects women and girls, their families and their societies in different ways, and deprives the girl of a future in which she can fulfill her dreams.
