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  • Shashi Devi (aged 28) sits for a portrait in her house in the village of Shahpurjat, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. While Shashi had a tubectomy done after having 2 sons, Monika, her brother-in-law's wife, is still trying for a son after having 2 daughters. Shashi did the operation because she wanted to "give her 2 children the best and inflation will make things difficult", and she believes that a "small family is a happy family". She has been pushing Monika to get her husband to do an NSV so that Monika's life is not endangered since her previous pregnancies have been complicated. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • UK celebrity Myleene Klass (in black) meets underprivileged mother Irma Asoro, 29, as she holds her 4-month-old baby, Rashed James, who she has been feeding formula since he was 2 days old, in her rented home in an urban slum in Paranaque, Metro Manila, The Philippines on 19 January 2013. She thinks that formula is better for her baby even though the cost of formula and bottled water costs her more than double her rent, and she has to borrow from family and friends to pay for it. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save the Children UK
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  • Irma Asoro, 29, holds her 4-month-old baby, Rashed James, who she has been feeding formula since he was 2 days old, in her rented home in an urban slum in Paranaque, Metro Manila, The Philippines on 19 January 2013. She thinks that formula is better for her baby even though the cost of formula and bottled water costs her more than double her rent, and she has to borrow from family and friends to pay for it. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save the Children UK
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  • Villagers and 14 year old Tulasa Khadka's husband's extended family at home in the remote village of Dungi Khola, near Chhinchu, Surkhet district, Western Nepal, on 1st July 2012. Tulasa eloped at 13 and gave birth to a stillborn baby weighing less than 1 kg a week ago. She walks through the hills to the nearest hospital and she went into labour while on her way there for a checkup at almost full term. In Surkhet, Save the Children partners with Safer Society, a local NGO which advocates for child rights and against child marriage. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Vilma Tacuyo, 20, breastfeeds her youngest child, Ulderico (10 months), in their one room home in an urban slum in Paranaque City, Metro Manila, The Philippines on 18 January 2013. Vilma had raised her first 3 children on formula and had to cut down on food for her family to afford it. Both John Ashley, 4, and Justin, 3, are malnourished and stunted, and after losing one of her children, she now breastfeeds her youngest, Ulderico. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save the Children UK
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  • Sitara's (aged 35, unseen) 7 children (5 daughters & 2 sons) cook for the breaking of fast during the month of Ramadhan and take care of each other in their small house in a village in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. "I wish that I could stop getting pregnant but our religion says that children are a gift of God." says Sitara, an illiterate muslim lady whose husband works as a vegetable vendor in the local village market. They have resisted all advises of permanent sterilization from the local village-level health workers. Children from left to right : Ajman (5), Rani (7), Chandni (14), Roshni (10), Tamanna (8 months), Asif (3), and Sufia (8). Photo by Suzanne Lee / Panos London
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  • Myleene Klass, a celebrity from the UK, holds Jihan, aged 4 months, who has been formula-fed since birth despite the poverty of his mother, Josephine Savares, 18, in Paranaque, Metro Manila, The Philippines on 19 January 2013. Josephine had decided to feed her baby formula during her pregnancy and had no idea that her father had to pay such a high price for it. Her family goes without food some days, and her siblings have had to stop school in order to afford the formula. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save the Children UK
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  • Female community health workers attend a class in the Bardia District Hospital in Bardia, Western Nepal, on 29th June 2012. In Bardia, StC works with the district health office to build the capacity of female community health workers who are on the frontline of health service provision like ante-natal and post-natal care, and working together against child marriage and teenage pregnancy especially in rural areas. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • (L-R) Amit (13), Kelaji Adivasi (45), Tribhuvan Adivasi (50), Akanksha (8), Vinita (23, married when 14, has 3 children), Vinita's baby, and Dharma (18, soon to be married), pose for a family portrait in their house in a tribal hamlet. Tribhuvan, a farm labourer, says that "it was a mistake to have so many children. Food is difficult for us." Kelaji and Tribhuvan have a total of 6 children and live in poverty in Baul ka Dhera hamlet, Mugari Village, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Allahabad, a poorer district of the state of Uttar Pradesh, is the most populated district of the most populous state of India. While Ghaziabad, located close to India's capital city, Delhi, has a population of 4,661,452 with a sex ratio of 878 girls against every 1000 boys, and a high literary percentage of 85%, Allahabad, has a population of 5,959,798 and a sex ratio of 902 girls against every 1000 boys and a literacy rate of 74.41%. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Panos London
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  • Kamla Devi, aged 38, from Shironj, Ajmer, Rajasthan, was Rajasthan's first woman Barefoot Solar Engineer. She had become a Barefoot Solar Engineer 17 years ago and has been practicing since. Now, besides being a solar engineer, she empowers other women and teaches at the Barefoot College in Tilonia village, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Children who live in a graveyard play and stand on the tombs in an inhabited cemetery in Paranaque City, Metro Manila, The Philippines on 18 January 2013. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save the Children UK
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  • Sadma Khan, 19, plays with Lucky, a pet parakeet, in her mother's one-room house which she shares with 5 other family members in a slum area of Tonk, Rajasthan, India, on 19th June 2012. She was married at 17 years old to Waseem Khan, also underaged at the time of their wedding. The couple have an 18 month old baby and Sadma is now 3 months pregnant with her 2nd child and plans to use contraceptives after this pregnancy. She lives with her mother since Waseem works in another district and she can't take care of her children on her own. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Oli Ahmed (11) sits for a portrait in the meeting hut of a Children's Group in Bhashantek Basti (Slum) in Zon H, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 23rd September 2011. Oli says, "We are in extreme poverty. If our parents get a good price for our marriages, there is nothing we can do. (Also,) we are now in the era of gender equality and girls should be allowed to study instead of being married off." Oli wants to be a doctor when he grows up. The Bhashantek Basti Childrens Group is run by children for children with the facilitation of PLAN Bangladesh and other partner NGOs. Slum children from ages 8 to 17 run the group within their own communities to protect vulnerable children from child related issues such as child marriage. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • UK celebrity Myleene Klass cries as she listens to Vilma Tacuyo, 20, speak of her difficulties while she breastfeeds her youngest child, Ulderico (10 months), in their one room home in an urban slum in Paranaque City, Metro Manila, The Philippines on 18 January 2013. Vilma had raised her first 3 children on formula and had to cut down on food for her family to afford it. Both John Ashley, 4, and Justin, 3, are malnourished and stunted, and after losing one of her children, she now breastfeeds her youngest, Ulderico. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save the Children UK
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  • Nomad Santra Banjara, aged 25, poses for a portrait with a borrowed solar lantern next to her camel in the nomadic village, Banjara Ki Dhani. Ancestrally known as rich salt merchants, until commercially packaged salt was available in the market, they now work as daily wage labourers in nearby agricultural fields. Three years ago, when the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India, had come to sell solar panels and lanterns to them at INR 1000 per set, Santra's family were skeptics of the solar technology. Since then, they have been borrowing a solar set from the village school. Today, they have ordered a set from the Barefoot College for themselves. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Santosh Devi, aged 19, poses for a portrait on the rooftop with her solar panels. She graduated 2 years ago from the solar engineering course of the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. She has since solar powered 20 homes in her village, Balaji Ki Dhani, Bauli, Nagur District, Rajasthan, making it the first village in India to be 100% solar powered in all houses. Above this, she does all maintenance for the neighbouring village, Gudda Ki Dhani, where the previous male solar engineer had left the village to find unrelated work in the city. Barefoot College prefers training women to be solar engineers for this reason that they have higher chances of staying in the village instead of moving to the cities. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • UK celebrity Myleene Klass weeps with Vilma Tacuyo, 20, while Vilma breastfeeds her youngest child, Ulderico (10 months), in their one room home in an urban slum in Paranaque City, Metro Manila, The Philippines on 18 January 2013. Vilma had raised her first 3 children on formula and had to cut down on food for her family to afford it. Both John Ashley, 4, and Justin, 3, are malnourished and stunted, and after losing one of her children, she now breastfeeds her youngest, Ulderico. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save the Children UK
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  • A widow, Rubi Begum, 40 (sitting in center), sells her products in Ghagoa Villlage, Gobindagonj Upazila, Gaibandha, Bangladesh on 19th September 2011. Living alone after her husband's passing, she has now (since 2.5 years) found financial independence by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • (L-R) Christine Joy, 9, UK celebrity Myleene Klass holding Carla Mae, 2, Rose Marie Ferrer, 33, and Charlene, 11, pose for a group portrait in an inhabited cemetery where they live in Paranaque City, Metro Manila, The Philippines on 18 January 2013. Myleene Klass had come to visit Rose who owns a shop in the cemetery where she sells funeral items. She supports her family with this, has breastfed all her 5 children, and is 9 months pregnant now. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save the Children UK
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  • Myleene Klass, a high profile UK celebrity, TV host, violinist and pianist, poses for a portrait with children in an urban slum where she had visited an under-privileged mother and her family in Paranaque, Metro Manila, The Philippines on 19 January 2013. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save the Children UK
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  • Jesmin Akhter, 26 (in turquoise & blue), poses for a portrait in one of her 'marketplaces', Jerai Villlage, Gobindagonj Upazila, Gaibandha, Bangladesh on 19th September 2011. She has found financial independence and contributes to her household income by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is the top saleswoman under her 'hub', out of 30 women. Having worked for about 2.5 years, she cycles from village to village and door to door in a country where women on bicycles is an extremely uncommon sight. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • Sarawati Regmi (white), 11, attends a club meeting at the Kishuri Sachetana Child Club in their activity center in Thahuri Tole, Chhinchu, Surkhet district, Western Nepal, on 1st July 2012. Sarawati's ambition is to run an NGO. 16-year-old Bhawani Regmi (in grey/pink) who is the president of the district level child forum, 11-year-old  Sarawati Regmi (in white), and 10-year-old Ganga Regmi (in pink) are daughters of pandit (Hindu priest) Dharma Raj Regmi who is one of the 3 priests who have agreed to stop solemnizing child marriages. These Child Clubs, supported by the government, Save the Children and their local partner NGO Safer Society, advocate for child rights and against child marriages and use peer support and education to end child marriages and raise awareness. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • The Guardian writer Zoe Williams speaks to Tulasa Khadka, 14, who got married when she was 13 and gave birth to a stillborn baby weighing less than 1kg a week ago, as she rests at home in the remote village of Dungi Khola, near Chhinchu, Surkhet district, Western Nepal, on 1st July 2012. Tulasa eloped one year ago and didn't use contraceptives. She walks through the hills to the nearest hospital and she went into labour while on her way there for a checkup at almost full term. In Surkhet, Save the Children partners with Safer Society, a local NGO which advocates for child rights and against child marriage. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Nitu (not her real name), wipes her forehead in her kitchen in Jhaju village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on 4th October 2012. Now 18, she was married off at age 10 to a boy of around the same age, but only went to live with her in-laws when she was 12, after she had finished studying up to class 6. The three sisters, aged 10, 12, and 15 were married off on the same day by their maternal grandfather while their father was hospitalized. She was abused by her young husband and in-laws so her father took her back after hearing that her husband, who works in a brick kiln, was an alcoholic and was doing drugs and crime. She had only spent a few days at her husband's house at that time. Her father (now out of the hospital) has said that she will only be allowed to return to her husband's house if he changes his ways but so far, the negotiations are still underway. Photo by Suzanne Lee for PLAN UK
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  • Jesmin Akhter, 26 (right, in turquoise & blue), sells her products in one of her 'marketplaces', Jerai Villlage, Gobindagonj Upazila, Gaibandha, Bangladesh on 19th September 2011. She has found financial independence and contributes to her household income by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is the top saleswoman under her 'hub', out of 30 women. Having worked for about 2.5 years, she cycles from village to village and door to door in a country where women on bicycles is an extremely uncommon sight. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • Nargis Akhter takes care of her 7 month old son Nahid Hassan in her home compound in Gazipur village, Upazila Sreepur, Gazipur, Bangladesh on 21st September 2011. Nargis, now aged 19, was pulled our of school and wed when she was 12 years old as her family was afraid that she might become a victim of severe eve-teasing. Sad to leave school, she recalls being 'terrified, sad and uncertain' on the day of her marriage. Being married off at such a young age "is not good for health," she says. Her first baby died soon after birth and she is now raising her 2nd child. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • Members of a children's group raise their hands to count those who have official birth certificates during a monthly meeting of a Children's Group in Bhashantek Basti (Slum) in Zon H, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 23rd September 2011. Official birth certificates is essential in proving that a child is underaged for marriage as many parents lie about their child's age when asked. The Bhashantek Basti Children's Group is run by children for children with the facilitation of PLAN Bangladesh and other partner NGOs. Slum children from ages 8 to 17 run the group within their own communities to protect vulnerable children from child related issues such as child marriage. About 20150 people live in the Bhashantek urban slum, with an average household size of 5 in housing sizes of 8 x 9ft made of bamboo, tin sheets and scrap materials. The average annual income is USD 200. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • General views and village life in Gangate Village,  Sathakhani Bidishi, Surkhet district, Western Nepal, on 30th June 2012. In Surkhet, StC partners with Safer Society, a local NGO which advocates for child rights and against child marriage.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Bhawani Regmi (grey/pink), 16, speaks of the issues of child marriage at a club meeting at the Kishuri Sachetana Child Club in their activity center in Thahuri Tole, Chhinchu, Surkhet district, Western Nepal, on 1st July 2012. Bhawani's ambition is to be a doctor. 16-year-old Bhawani Regmi (in grey/pink) who is the president of the district level child forum, 11-year-old  Sarawati Regmi (in white), and 10-year-old Ganga Regmi (in pink) are daughters of pandit (Hindu priest) Dharma Raj Regmi who is one of the 3 priests who have agreed to stop solemnizing child marriages. These Child Clubs, supported by the government, Save the Children and their local partner NGO Safer Society, advocate for child rights and against child marriages and use peer support and education to end child marriages and raise awareness. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Manisha Sunar (left), 18, carries her 2 year old son, as her husband's niece Pramila Bhujel, 13, stands next to her at the information center near their home in Lekhapharsa vilage, Surkhet district, Western Nepal, on 30th June 2012. Manisha was married off when she was 14 but secretly used contraceptives with the help of her husband's sister. When he found out, he forced her to stop and she was soon pregnant with no money to terminate it. She's now 8 months pregnant again even though her husband neglects and abuses her and her son. He also mistreats Pramila and earlier this year, a fellow villager secretly married Pramila off to a man in his mid-20s but the marriage was annulled the day after when her uncle, Manisha's husband found out and wrestled her back. Now, Pramila is still mistreated by her uncle and is considered a divorcee since she spent one night with the man she was married to, but she is back in school and has ambitions to become a nurse. In Surkhet, StC partners with Safer Society, a local NGO which advocates for child rights and against child marriage. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Save the Children UK's Global Director of Media, Ishbel Matheson stands amongst 14 year old Tulasa Khadka's family in their home in the remote village of Dungi Khola, near Chhinchu, Surkhet district, Western Nepal, on 1st July 2012. Tulasa eloped at 13 and gave birth to a stillborn baby weighing less than 1 kg a week ago. She walks through the hills to the nearest hospital and she went into labour while on her way there for a checkup at almost full term. In Surkhet, Save the Children partners with Safer Society, a local NGO which advocates for child rights and against child marriage. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Ganga Regmi (pink), 10, attends a club meeting at the Kishuri Sachetana Child Club in their activity center in Thahuri Tole, Chhinchu, Surkhet district, Western Nepal, on 1st July 2012. Ganga's ambition is to be a doctor. 16-year-old Bhawani Regmi (in grey/pink) who is the president of the district level child forum, 11-year-old  Sarawati Regmi (in white), and 10-year-old Ganga Regmi (in pink) are daughters of pandit (Hindu priest) Dharma Raj Regmi who is one of the 3 priests who have agreed to stop solemnizing child marriages. These Child Clubs, supported by the government, Save the Children and their local partner NGO Safer Society, advocate for child rights and against child marriages and use peer support and education to end child marriages and raise awareness. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Sita Tharu (center in turquoise), 14, is six months pregnant as she gathers with other child mothers and child brides to see Pahari Tharu, 52, the female community health worker in Bhaishahi village, Bardia, Western Nepal, on 29th June 2012. Sita eloped and married last year at 13 and is now 6 months pregnant. In Bardia, StC works with the district health office to build the capacity of female community health workers who are on the frontline of health service provision like ante-natal and post-natal care, and working together against child marriage and teenage pregnancy especially in rural areas. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Tamanna Jinnat (13, red scarf) speaks during a monthly meeting of a Children's Group in Bhashantek Basti (Slum) in Zon H, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 23rd September 2011. Tamanna explains, "we have an organised system: we have a list of girls who are potential child brides and we check on them. Another initiative is making sure that there is birth registration for babies so that there will be a proof of their age." Tamanna's mother said that "at your age, you are not aware of the benefits of an early marriage," to which Tamanna replied, "how about issues of maternal mortality from being too young to bear children?". She also wants to be allowed to work part time so she can support her own education and independence. The Bhashantek Basti Childrens Group is run by children for children with the facilitation of PLAN Bangladesh and other partner NGOs. Slum children from ages 8 to 17 run the group within their own communities to protect vulnerable children from child related issues such as child marriage. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • Child bride Rina Akhter Meghla (14) sits for a portrait in the meeting hut of a Children's Group in Bhashantek Basti (Slum) in Zon H, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 23rd September 2011. "I was about to be wed. The groom was already selected. I told my parents that I didn't want to get married now because I just will be a servant to my husband. I wanted to be independent." Her parents had said that they wanted to marry her off because she was watching too much television and not doing well in school, after which she promised to stop watching TV and improve her grades. Her ambition is to be a police inspector. The Bhashantek Basti Childrens Group is run by children for children with the facilitation of PLAN Bangladesh and other partner NGOs. Slum children from ages 8 to 17 run the group within their own communities to protect vulnerable children from child related issues such as child marriage. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • Nargis Akhter takes care of her 7 month old son Nahid Hassan in her home compound in Gazipur village, Upazila Sreepur, Gazipur, Bangladesh on 21st September 2011. Nargis, now aged 19, was pulled our of school and wed when she was 12 years old as her family was afraid that she might become a victim of severe eve-teasing. Sad to leave school, she recalls being 'terrified, sad and uncertain' on the day of her marriage. Being married off at such a young age "is not good for health," she says. Her first baby died soon after birth and she is now raising her 2nd child. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • Nargis Akhter takes care of her 7 month old son Nahid Hassan in her home compound in Gazipur village, Upazila Sreepur, Gazipur, Bangladesh on 21st September 2011. Nargis, now aged 19, was pulled our of school and wed when she was 12 years old as her family was afraid that she might become a victim of severe eve-teasing. Sad to leave school, she recalls being 'terrified, sad and uncertain' on the day of her marriage. Being married off at such a young age "is not good for health," she says. Her first baby died soon after birth and she is now raising her 2nd child. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • Pramila Tharu, 15, cradles her 2 year old toddler Prapti, as she sits at home in Bhaishahi village, Bardia, Western Nepal, on 29th June 2012. Pramila eloped and married at 12 and gave birth to Prapti at age 13. She delivered prematurely on the way to the hospital in an ox cart and her baby weighed only 1.5kg at birth. In Bardia, StC works with the district health office to build the capacity of female community health workers who are on the frontline of health service provision like ante-natal and post-natal care, especially in rural areas. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Choti Devi (right), aged 63, harvests Bengal Gram from her field in Balaji ki Dhani, Bauli, Nagaur District, Rajasthan, together with hired labour. Barefoot solar engineer Santosh Devi who graduated from a  solar course in the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India, had provided Choti Devi with solar power and lanterns improving her life by allowing her to protect herself from poisonous monsoon insects and work late in the fields, cook in the night, and protect her cattle when they return from grazing after sunset. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Nisha Darlami's mother carries her 1 month old baby girl, Bushpa, up the stairs to her bedroom in Kalyan Village, Surkhet district, Western Nepal, on 30th June 2012. Nisha eloped with her step nephew when she was 13 but the couple used contraceptives for the next 6 years to delay pregnancy until she turned 18. Now 19, she has a one month old baby girl named Bushpa (flower). In Surkhet, StC partners with Safer Society, a local NGO which advocates for child rights and against child marriage. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Tulasa Khadka, 14, who got married when she was 13 and gave birth to a stillborn baby weighing less than 1kg a week ago, rests at home in the remote village of Dungi Khola, near Chhinchu, Surkhet district, Western Nepal, on 1st July 2012. Tulasa eloped one year ago and didn't use contraceptives. She walks through the hills to the nearest hospital and she went into labour while on her way there for a checkup at almost full term. In Surkhet, Save the Children partners with Safer Society, a local NGO which advocates for child rights and against child marriage. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Pramila Tharu, 15, comforts her 2 year old toddler Prapti, in Bhaishahi village, Bardia, Western Nepal, on 29th June 2012. Pramila eloped and married at 12 and gave birth to Prapti at age 13. She delivered prematurely on the way to the hospital in an ox cart and her baby weighed only 1.5kg at birth. In Bardia, StC works with the district health office to build the capacity of female community health workers who are on the frontline of health service provision like ante-natal and post-natal care, especially in rural areas. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Jagroshan Sharma (aged 36, top left) and his family in their home in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Jagroshan had chosen to do a non-scalpel vasectomy (NSV) for many reasons. He wanted to be an equal partner in the relationship, knew that NSV was less complicated and will not put his wife through numerous problems, and wants his two children to do well in life and study in English medium schools despite his modest earnings. He now works part time as a link worker under the tutelage of Dr Meenal Mehta (unseen) who works with USAID on the NSV project in Uttar Pradesh, India. Jagroshan has been the star link worker, doing about 5 cases of NSV cases per month since he started. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Panos London
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  • Dr. Vikasendu Agarwal, the paediatrician of the Muradnagar Community Health Centre (CHC), poses for a portrait in the paediatrics ward of the CHC in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. He says that "Bigger incentives should be given to women to have a tubectomy done after 2 children instead of the current plan of giving incentives for every child born institutionally as the in most cases,money goes directly to the household instead of the mother's healthcare defeating the very purpose of this incentive. The growth-rate between different socio-cultural population groups in the region are drastically different due to lack of awareness of the benefits of family planning in certain groups". Photo by Suzanne Lee / Panos London
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  • Suki (not her real name), spins cotton in her house in Jhaju village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on 4th October 2012. Now 20, Suki was married off at age 12, but only went to live with her husband when she was 14. The three sisters, aged 10, 12, and 15 were married off on the same day by their maternal grandfather while their father was hospitalized. Her husband died three years after she moved in, leaving her with a daughter, now 6, and a son, now 4. She has no parents-in-laws and thus returned to her parents house after being widowed because her brother-in-law, who had become the head of the family after his brother's death, had refused to allow Suki to inherit her deceased husband's fair share of agriculture land. Although Suki's father wants her to remarry, she refuses to, hoping instead to be able to support her family through embroidery and tailoring work. The family also makes hand-loom cotton to subsidize their collective household income. Photo by Suzanne Lee for PLAN UK
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  • Nitu (not her real name), stands at the doorway at her home in Jhaju village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on 4th October 2012. Now 18, she was married off at age 10 to a boy of around the same age, but only went to live with her in-laws when she was 12, after she had finished studying up to class 6. The three sisters, aged 10, 12, and 15 were married off on the same day by their maternal grandfather while their father was hospitalized. She was abused by her young husband and in-laws so her father took her back after hearing that her husband, who works in a brick kiln, was an alcoholic and was doing drugs and crime. She had only spent a few days at her husband's house at that time. Her father (now out of the hospital) has said that she will only be allowed to return to her husband's house if he changes his ways but so far, the negotiations are still underway. Photo by Suzanne Lee for PLAN UK
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  • Sadma Khan, 19, plays with her 18 month old son in her mother's one-room house which she shares with 5 other family members in a slum area of Tonk, Rajasthan, India, on 19th June 2012. She was married at 17 years old to Waseem Khan, also underaged at the time of their wedding. The couple have an 18 month old baby and Sadma is now 3 months pregnant with her 2nd child and plans to use contraceptives after this pregnancy. She lives with her mother since Waseem works in another district and she can't take care of her children on her own. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Jagroshan Sharma (aged 36, in grey) discusses work with Dr. Meenal Mehta (in blue), who is in charge of the USAID NSV projects in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, as they wait for a shared rickshaw to leave the village. After doing NSV himself, he has been a star link worker introducing about 5 NSV cases per month since he started working part time under the tutelage of Dr Mehta. Jagroshan had chosen to do a non-scalpel vasectomy (NSV) for many reasons. He wanted to be an equal partner in the relationship, knew that NSV was less complicated and will not put his wife through numerous problems, and wants his two children to do well in life and study in English medium schools despite his modest earnings. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Panos London
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  • People go about their daily lives in an urban slum in Paranaque City, Metro Manila, The Philippines on 19 January 2013. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save the Children UK
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  • Nusrat Jahan Popy (16) sits for a portrait in the meeting hut of a Children's Group in Bhashantek Basti (Slum) in Zon H, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 23rd September 2011. Popy says, "I feel helpless, not angry (if my parents would try to marry me off). I can do stitching and we want to be allowed to work so that we can earn money to support ourselves in our studies and to rid ourselves of poverty and gain independence." The Bhashantek Basti Childrens Group is run by children for children with the facilitation of PLAN Bangladesh and other partner NGOs. Slum children from ages 8 to 17 run the group within their own communities to protect vulnerable children from child related issues such as child marriage. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • Bhawani Regmi (grey/pink), 16, speaks of child marriage, family planning and pregnancy health at the Kishuri Sachetana Child Club in their activity center in Thahuri Tole, Chhinchu, Surkhet district, Western Nepal, on 1st July 2012. Bhawani's ambition is to be a doctor. 16-year-old Bhawani Regmi (in grey/pink) who is the president of the district level child forum, 11-year-old  Sarawati Regmi (in white), and 10-year-old Ganga Regmi (in pink) are daughters of pandit (Hindu priest) Dharma Raj Regmi who is one of the 3 priests who have agreed to stop solemnizing child marriages. These Child Clubs, supported by the government, Save the Children and their local partner NGO Safer Society, advocate for child rights and against child marriages and use peer support and education to end child marriages and raise awareness. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Chandraseker Shahi, 17, sings a self-written song against child marriage while Sarawati Regmi (white, age 11) dances to it at the Kishuri Sachetana Child Club in their activity center in Thahuri Tole, Chhinchu, Surkhet district, Western Nepal, on 1st July 2012. Sarawati Regmi is Pandit Dharma Raj Regmi's daughter and has ambitions to run an NGO. These Child Clubs, supported by the government, Save the Children and their local partner NGO Safer Society, advocate for child rights and against child marriages and use peer support and education to end child marriages and raise awareness. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Ganga Regmi (pink), 10, attends a club meeting at the Kishuri Sachetana Child Club in their activity center in Thahuri Tole, Chhinchu, Surkhet district, Western Nepal, on 1st July 2012. Ganga's ambition is to be a doctor. 16-year-old Bhawani Regmi (in grey/pink) who is the president of the district level child forum, 11-year-old  Sarawati Regmi (in white), and 10-year-old Ganga Regmi (in pink) are daughters of pandit (Hindu priest) Dharma Raj Regmi who is one of the 3 priests who have agreed to stop solemnizing child marriages. These Child Clubs, supported by the government, Save the Children and their local partner NGO Safer Society, advocate for child rights and against child marriages and use peer support and education to end child marriages and raise awareness. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Nisha Darlami, 19, tends to her 1 month old baby girl, Bushpa, in her mother's house in Kalyan Village, Surkhet district, Western Nepal, on 30th June 2012. Nisha eloped with her step nephew when she was 13 but the couple used contraceptives for the next 6 years to delay pregnancy until she turned 18. In Surkhet, StC partners with Safer Society, a local NGO which advocates for child rights and against child marriage. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Nisha Darlami, 19, carries her 1 month old baby girl, Bushpa, as she sits in her mother's house in Kalyan Village, Surkhet district, Western Nepal, on 30th June 2012. Nisha eloped with her step nephew when she was 13 but the couple used contraceptives for the next 6 years to delay pregnancy until she turned 18. In Surkhet, StC partners with Safer Society, a local NGO which advocates for child rights and against child marriage. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Rana Bahadur Magar, 24, holds a variety of contraceptives in his pharmacy which he bought over 2 years ago in Gangate Village, Sathakhani Bidishi, Surkhet district, Western Nepal, on 30th June 2012. Monthly, Rana Bahadur Magar sells over 300 condoms and 1700 birth control pills and does about 10 injections of 3-month-long contraceptives which he is trained to do. The nearest district hospital is an hour's drive away. In Surkhet, StC partners with Safer Society, a local NGO which advocates for child rights and against child marriage.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • General views and village life: a young girl fishes for small fish and crabs in Gangate Village,  Sathakhani Bidishi, Surkhet district, Western Nepal, on 30th June 2012. In Surkhet, StC partners with Safer Society, a local NGO which advocates for child rights and against child marriage.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • General views and village life, Two village women carry firewood as they cross the river in Surkhet district, Western Nepal, on 30th June 2012. In Surkhet, StC partners with Safer Society, a local NGO which advocates for child rights and against child marriage.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Female community health workers attend a class in the Bardia District Hospital in Bardia, Western Nepal, on 29th June 2012. In Bardia, StC works with the district health office to build the capacity of female community health workers who are on the frontline of health service provision like ante-natal and post-natal care, and working together against child marriage and teenage pregnancy especially in rural areas. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Amrita Rokya, 18, cradles her 2-day-old baby in the Bardia District Hospital, one hour's walk from her village in Bardia, Western Nepal, on 29th June 2012. In Bardia, StC works with the district health office to build the capacity of female community health workers who are on the frontline of health service provision like ante-natal and post-natal care, and working together against child marriage and teenage pregnancy especially in rural areas. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Laxmi Oli, 23, cradles her 3-day-old 2nd child, as her mother-in-law (center) looks on in the Bardia District Hospital one hour's walk from her village in Bardia, Western Nepal, on 29th June 2012. Laxmi had her first child at 18. In Bardia, StC works with the district health office to build the capacity of female community health workers who are on the frontline of health service provision like ante-natal and post-natal care, and working together against child marriage and teenage pregnancy especially in rural areas. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Pahari Tharu, 52, a female community health worker, holds some of her midwifery equipment as she speaks of family planning and pregnancy health to a group of teenaged mothers and child brides in Bhaishahi village, Bardia, Western Nepal, on 29th June 2012. In Bardia, StC works with the district health office to build the capacity of female community health workers who are on the frontline of health service provision like ante-natal and post-natal care, and working together against child marriage and teenage pregnancy especially in rural areas. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Lakshmi Tharu (in purple), 22, sits with her younger of 2 sons aged 10 and 4 as she gathers with other child mothers and child brides to see Pahari Tharu, 52, the female community health worker in Bhaishahi village, Bardia, Western Nepal, on 29th June 2012. Lakshmi has never been to school and was married to an 11 year old boy when she was nine, giving birth to her first child when she was 12. In Bardia, StC works with the district health office to build the capacity of female community health workers who are on the frontline of health service provision like ante-natal and post-natal care, and working together against child marriage and teenage pregnancy especially in rural areas. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • A young girl smiles at the camera as a group of teenaged mothers and child brides gather to listen to a female community health worker speak of family planning and pregnancy health in Bhaishahi village, Bardia, Western Nepal, on 29th June 2012. In Nepal, some girls not much older than this girl is married off as dowry payments for young girls are much less than older ones. In Bardia, StC works with the district health office to build the capacity of female community health workers who are on the frontline of health service provision like ante-natal and post-natal care, and working together against child marriage and teenage pregnancy especially in rural areas. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Pramila Tharu, 15, sits in her home as she cradles her 2 year old toddler Prapti, in Bhaishahi village, Bardia, Western Nepal, on 29th June 2012. Pramila eloped and married at 12 and gave birth to Prapti at age 13. She delivered prematurely on the way to the hospital in an ox cart and her baby weighed only 1.5kg at birth. In Bardia, StC works with the district health office to build the capacity of female community health workers who are on the frontline of health service provision like ante-natal and post-natal care, especially in rural areas. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Pramila Tharu, 15, carries her 2 year old toddler Prapti as she stands at the door of her home in Bhaishahi village, Bardia, Western Nepal, on 29th June 2012. Pramila eloped and married at 12 and gave birth to Prapti at age 13. She delivered prematurely on the way to the hospital in an ox cart and her baby weighed only 1.5kg at birth. In Bardia, StC works with the district health office to build the capacity of female community health workers who are on the frontline of health service provision like ante-natal and post-natal care, especially in rural areas. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Pramila Tharu, 15, serves lentils and rice to her 2 year old toddler Prapti, in Bhaishahi village, Bardia, Western Nepal, on 29th June 2012. Pramila eloped and married at 12 and gave birth to Prapti at age 13. She delivered prematurely on the way to the hospital in an ox cart and her baby weighed only 1.5kg at birth. In Bardia, StC works with the district health office to build the capacity of female community health workers who are on the frontline of health service provision like ante-natal and post-natal care, especially in rural areas. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Nitu and Suki (in pink) (not their real names), stand for a portrait with their family in Jhaju village, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India on 4th October 2012. Now 18, Nitu was married off at age 10 to a boy of around the same age, but only went to live with her in-laws when she was 12, after she had finished studying up to class 6. The three sisters, aged 10, 12, and 15 were married off on the same day by their maternal grandfather while their father was hospitalized. She was abused by her young husband and in-laws so her father took her back after hearing that her husband, who works in a brick kiln, was an alcoholic and was doing drugs and crime. She had only spent a few days at her husband's house at that time. Her father (now out of the hospital) has said that she will only be allowed to return to her husband's house if he changes his ways but so far, the negotiations are still underway. Her sister, Suki, now age 20, was married off at age 12 but only went to live with her husband when she was 14. Her husband died three years after she moved in, leaving her with a daughter, now 6, and a son, now 4. She has no parents-in-laws and thus returned to her parents house after being widowed because her brother-in-law, who had become the head of the family after his brother's death, had refused to allow Suki to inherit her deceased husband's fair share of agriculture land. Although Suki's father wants her to remarry, she refuses to, hoping instead to be able to support her family through embroidery and tailoring work. The family also makes hand-loom cotton to subsidize their collective household income. Photo by Suzanne Lee for PLAN UK
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  • Sitara (aged 35, 2nd from left), sits with her 7 children (5 daughters & 2 sons) as she breastfeeds her 8 month old baby girl in a village in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. "I wish that I could stop getting pregnant but our religion says that children are a gift of God." Sitara is an illiterate muslim lady whose husband works as a vegetable vendor in the local village market. They have resisted all advises of permanent sterilization from the local village-level health workers. Children from left to right : Roshni (10), Tamanna (8 months), Chandni (14), Sufia (8), Asif (3), Ajman (5), and Rani (7). Photo by Suzanne Lee / Panos London
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  • Jagroshan Sharma (aged 36, background (in grey) approaches random villagers from Shahpurjat village with Dr. Meenal Mehta (in blue), who is in charge of the USAID NSV projects in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. After doing NSV himself, he has been a star link worker introducing about 5 NSV cases per month since he started working part time under the tutelage of Dr Mehta. Jagroshan had chosen to do a non-scalpel vasectomy (NSV) for many reasons. He wanted to be an equal partner in the relationship, knew that NSV was less complicated and will not put his wife through numerous problems, and wants his two children to do well in life and study in English medium schools despite his modest earnings. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Panos London
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  • (Facing left, top-bottom) Murunnahar Khatun (blue hat), Mosiammat Rahimah Begum (yellow sari), Mosammat Reshona Khatun (red sari) and Mosammat Dulali Begum (grey hat) work on their rugs at the Mornia Kik Rug Factory in Doani Villlage, Haragach Upazila, Rangpur, Bangladesh on 19th September 2011 where they work alongside 25 rural village women making rugs for German textile discounter Kik. Over 400 women have been economically empowered through the CARE Bangladesh WONDER Project that was completed recently. The WONDER Project's goals were to create sustainable income and employment opportunities for extremely poor women by training them in rug production for export. The women now earn about 4000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. The WONDER Project has now moved into a new phase that focusses on general healthcare, workplace safety and nutritional training and awareness programs. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • A village elder (2nd from left) angrily asks Dr. Mehta why they are only 'approaching Hindus and not the Muslims' about NSV and family planning drives. Jagroshan Sharma (aged 36, unseen) approaches random villagers from Shahpurjat village with Dr. Meenal Mehta (unseen), who is in charge of the USAID NSV projects in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. After doing NSV himself, he has been a star link worker introducing about 5 NSV cases per month since he started working part time under the tutelage of Dr Mehta. Jagroshan had chosen to do a non-scalpel vasectomy (NSV) for many reasons. He wanted to be an equal partner in the relationship, knew that NSV was less complicated and will not put his wife through numerous problems, and wants his two children to do well in life and study in English medium schools despite his modest earnings. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Panos London
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  • Seema Gupta's children aged 8 and 10 play in their shophouse in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Seema Gupta, aged 34 (unseen), had a tubectomy done on 9 June 2011 for family planning while her husband, Ramesh Chandra Gupta, aged 38 (unseen), wasn't aware of the option and benefits of non-scalpel vasectomy (NSV). They run a roadside sweets shop at the front of their house and chose to have a family planning surgery done as they did not want to compromise the quality of life for their two children. While Ramesh wanted only 1 child, both his mother and Seema pushed for a 2nd child. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Panos London
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  • Dr. Vikasendu Agarwal, the paediatrician of the Muradnagar Community Health Centre (CHC), checks on a newborn in the paediatrics ward of the CHC in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. He says that "Bigger incentives should be given to women to have a tubectomy done after 2 children instead of the current plan of giving incentives for every child born institutionally as the in most cases,money goes directly to the household instead of the mother's healthcare defeating the very purpose of this incentive. The growth-rate between different socio-cultural population groups in the region are drastically different due to lack of awareness of the benefits of family planning in certain groups". Photo by Suzanne Lee / Panos London
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  • (Sitting left to right) Part time link workers Radhey Shyam (44) and Jagroshan Sharma (36) speak with their leader Dr. Meenal Mehta (lady in blue), the Project head of the USAID NSV project in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, as they approach random villagers from Shahpurjat village to promote awareness on NSV. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Panos London
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  • Sadma Khan, now 19, holds a wedding photo of she and her husband, Waseem Khan, now 26, as she sits in her mother's house in Tonk, Rajasthan, India, on 19th June 2012. She was married at 17 years old to Waseem Khan. The couple have an 18 month old baby and Sadma is now 3 months pregnant with her 2nd child and plans to use contraceptives after this pregnancy. She lives with her mother since Waseem works in another district and she can't take care of her children on her own. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Nafeesa, 27, rolls bidis (indian cigarettes) in her house in a slum in Tonk, Rajasthan, India, on 19th June 2012. Nafeesa's health deteriorated from bad birth spacing and over-working. While her husband works far from home, she rolls bidis to make an income and support the family. She single-handedly runs the household and this has taken a toll on her health and financial insufficiencies has affected her children's health. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Nafeesa, 27, poses for a portrait without her 4 children aged 10, 7, 4, and 1.5 years, in her house compound in a slum in Tonk, Rajasthan, India, on 19th June 2012. Nafeesa's health deteriorated from bad birth spacing and over-working. While her husband works far from home, she rolls bidis (indian cigarettes) to make an income and support the family. She single-handedly runs the household and this has taken a toll on her health and financial insufficiencies has affected her children's health. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Save The Children UK
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  • Santosh Devi, aged 19, makes tea in her kitchen. She graduated 2 years ago from the solar engineering course of the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. She has since solar powered 20 homes in her village, Balaji Ki Dhani, Bauli, Nagur District, Rajasthan, making it the first village in India to be 100% solar powered in all houses. Above this, she does all maintenance for the neighbouring village, Gudda Ki Dhani, where the previous male solar engineer had left the village to find unrelated work in the city. Barefoot College prefers training women to be solar engineers for this reason that they have higher chances of staying in the village instead of moving to the cities. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Santosh Devi, aged 19, fixes some solar lanterns in her workshop at home. She graduated 2 years ago from the solar engineering course of the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. She has since solar powered 20 homes in her village, Balaji Ki Dhani, Bauli, Nagur District, Rajasthan, making it the first village in India to be 100% solar powered in all houses. Above this, she does all maintenance for the neighbouring village, Gudda Ki Dhani, where the previous male solar engineer had left the village to find unrelated work in the city. Barefoot College prefers training women to be solar engineers for this reason that they have higher chances of staying in the village instead of moving to the cities. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Santosh Devi, aged 19, poses for a portrait in her workshop at home. She graduated 2 years ago from the solar engineering course of the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. She has since solar powered 20 homes in her village, Balaji Ki Dhani, Bauli, Nagur District, Rajasthan, making it the first village in India to be 100% solar powered in all houses. Above this, she does all maintenance for the neighbouring village, Gudda Ki Dhani, where the previous male solar engineer had left the village to find unrelated work in the city. Barefoot College prefers training women to be solar engineers for this reason that they have higher chances of staying in the village instead of moving to the cities. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Nomads Kanaram Banjara, aged 55, and his wife Manju Banjara, aged 50, pose for a portrait with their solar panel in front of their mud hut in Banjara Ki Dhani. Ancestrally known as rich salt merchants, until commercially packaged salt was available in the market, they now work as daily wage labourers in nearby agricultural fields. Three years ago, the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India, had come to sell solar panels and lanterns to them at INR 1000 per set. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Precious Molobane Mamogale, aged 42, from Fetakgomo, Lompopo, South Africa, talks to her African classmates. She has been studying a 6 month course in solar engineering in the Barefoot College in Tilonia village, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India since two weeks ago. She misses home dearly and wears a star badge on her clothes everyday, a symbol of her church. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • (L-R) International students of the Barefoot Solar Engineering class, Kingzing Chodon (aged 30) from Lour, Bhutan; Precious Molobane Mamogale, aged 42, from Fetakgomo, Lompopo, South Africa; and Matildah Chikwata (aged 43) from Chibaya, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe, pose for a group portrait in class. They are all students in a 6 month course in solar engineering in the Barefoot College in Tilonia village, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • An Indian student solders and assembles circuit boards in class in the Barefoot College in Tilonia village, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Shahida Begum, 35, dresses her daughter, Mahfuza Akhter (5), in her hut in Palashbari Villlage, Taragonj, Rangpur, Bangladesh on 18th September 2011, after a regular day of work as a saleswoman earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • (L-R) Mohd. Abu Taleb (41, husband), Mahfuza Akhter (5, daughter), Shahida Begum (35), Akhterruzzaman (38, Hub Manager). .Shahida Begum, 35, meets her Hub Manager, Akhterruzzaman, in her hut's compound in Palashbari Villlage, Taragonj, Rangpur, Bangladesh on 18th September 2011, after a regular day of work as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • Shahida Begum, 35, pumps ground water to cook dinner in her home in Palashbari Villlage, Taragonj, Rangpur, Bangladesh on 18th September 2011. She has found financial independence and contributes to the family income by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • Shahida Begum, 35, cooks dinner in her home in Palashbari Villlage, Taragonj, Rangpur, Bangladesh on 18th September 2011. She has found financial independence and contributes to the family income by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • (L-R) Mosiammat Rahimah Begum (yellow sari) and Mosammat Reshona Khatun (center, red sari) work on their rugs at the Mornia Kik Rug Factory in Doani Villlage, Haragach Upazila, Rangpur, Bangladesh on 19th September 2011 where they work alongside 25 rural village women making rugs for German textile discounter Kik. Over 400 women have been economically empowered through the CARE Bangladesh WONDER Project that was completed recently. The WONDER Project's goals were to create sustainable income and employment opportunities for extremely poor women by training them in rug production for export. The women now earn about 4000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. The WONDER Project has now moved into a new phase that focusses on general healthcare, workplace safety and nutritional training and awareness programs. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • Aklima Khatun works on her rug at the Mornia Kik Rug Factory in Doani Villlage, Haragach Upazila, Rangpur, Bangladesh on 19th September 2011 where she works alongside 25 rural village women making rugs for German textile discounter Kik. Over 400 women have been economically empowered through the CARE Bangladesh WONDER Project that was completed recently. The WONDER Project's goals were to create sustainable income and employment opportunities for extremely poor women by training them in rug production for export. The women now earn about 4000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. The WONDER Project has now moved into a new phase that focusses on general healthcare, workplace safety and nutritional training and awareness programs. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • A widow, Rubi Begum, 40, prepares to go to work in her one room home in Ghagoa Villlage, Gobindagonj Upazila, Gaibandha, Bangladesh on 19th September 2011. Living alone after her husband's passing, she has now (since 2.5 years) found financial independence by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • A widow, Rubi Begum, 40 (standing in center), poses for a portrait in Ghagoa Villlage, Gobindagonj Upazila, Gaibandha, Bangladesh on 19th September 2011. Living alone after her husband's passing, she has now (since 2.5 years) found financial independence by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • Jesmin Akhter, 26 (in turquoise & blue), sells her products in one of her 'marketplaces', Jerai Villlage, Gobindagonj Upazila, Gaibandha, Bangladesh on 19th September 2011. She has found financial independence and contributes to her household income by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is the top saleswoman under her 'hub', out of 30 women. Having worked for about 2.5 years, she cycles from village to village and door to door in a country where women on bicycles is an extremely uncommon sight. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • Jesmin Akhter, 26 (in turquoise & blue), poses for a portrait in one of her 'marketplaces', Jerai Villlage, Gobindagonj Upazila, Gaibandha, Bangladesh on 19th September 2011. She has found financial independence and contributes to her household income by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is the top saleswoman under her 'hub', out of 30 women. Having worked for about 2.5 years, she cycles from village to village and door to door in a country where women on bicycles is an extremely uncommon sight. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • Jesmin Akhter, 26 (in turquoise & blue), sells her products in one of her 'marketplaces', Jerai Villlage, Gobindagonj Upazila, Gaibandha, Bangladesh on 19th September 2011. She has found financial independence and contributes to her household income by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is the top saleswoman under her 'hub', out of 30 women. Having worked for about 2.5 years, she cycles from village to village and door to door in a country where women on bicycles is an extremely uncommon sight. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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  • Jesmin Akhter, 26 (in turquoise & blue), keeps a record of her list of credit sales as she sells her products in one of her 'marketplaces', Jerai Villlage, Gobindagonj Upazila, Gaibandha, Bangladesh on 19th September 2011. She has found financial independence and contributes to her household income by working as a saleswoman, earning 3500 - 5000 Bangladeshi Taka per month. She is the top saleswoman under her 'hub', out of 30 women. Having worked for about 2.5 years, she cycles from village to village and door to door in a country where women on bicycles is an extremely uncommon sight. She is one of many rural Bangladeshi women trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of their project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajitas', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The Guardian
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