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SafeHands will use the power of film to change behaviour within communities still practising child marriage in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. The films will be shown within a community education programme, and can reach right to the heart of remote commun
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Although child weddings are illegal in Ethiopia the tradition is still very common in rural Amhara, one of the largest regions of Ethiopia where 14% of girls marry by age 10 and 39% marry by age 15. Although the bride, if very young, may continue to live