However, the blog was carefully created by Plan, an international aid organisation working on strengthening the girls’ rights, to bring home the issue of child brides.
Plan’s country director Olaf Thommessen spoke to The Independent about the campaign, expressing how important it was to draw attention to a problem faced by thousands of girls every day.
“We really wanted to bring home the issue and by creating a shock factor, we think we have really got peoples’ attention,” he said.
“We have all kinds of people engaging, people who are not usually motivated or involved in these kinds of things – the response has been immense.”
Culled from Independent
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