Hear the Wedding Bells Ring: The Dark Side of Child Marriages
The Selfie in Solidarity challenge started as a class project for Dr. Shadi Martin's Anti-Oppressive Practice Course at 海角社区 school of Social Work.
The students were asked to take action to effect personal and social change on a social justice issue. With the use of social media, the students started an international campaign to raise awareness about child marriages around the world.
In less than 3 weeks, the students had over 800 people from around the world joining their awareness campaign and they caught the attention of the media. Social work students learn to be change agents at micro, meso and macro level. This is a perfect example of social work classroom project making a meaningful impact outside of the classroom.
See on 海角社区 international review.
Every minute, 28 girls under the age of 18 are married against their will. Over 700 million women alive today have been聽married off before their 18th birthday. By 2050, over 1.2 billion girls will 鈥�
In picture: from top left are Vanessa Miglialo, Christina Kalavritinos, Shadi Martin (Class Prof.) , Katja Teixeira, Emily Roussos, Neil Bilotta (class TA) Sarah Dudley and Jamie Farnsworth.