Category Archives for Child Marriage Comics

‘Just Married’: How girls become wives
May 3, 2019Child Marriage Comics, Child Marriage Comics, Lebanon

‘Just Married’: How girls become wives

In this edition of the ‘Just Married’ series, storyteller Félix Brassier explains why young girls Syrian girls in refugee camps, like the Ouzaii shelter in Saida, leave their studies and dreams and become wives and…
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‘Just Married’: Faïza’s story
March 28, 2019Advocacy, Child Marriage Comics, Child Marriage Comics, Featured for Homepage, Lebanon

‘Just Married’: Faïza’s story

My name is Faïza. I’m 13 years old and I’m at the end of my life. Something is eating me from inside and the outside want to kill me.I can’t see nor the sun nor the people…
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‘Just Married’: May’s Story
February 27, 2019Advocacy, Advocacy, Child Marriage Comics, Child Marriage Comics, Child Marriage Comics, Empowerment, Lebanon, Press Releases

‘Just Married’: May’s Story

Before she even turned 18 years old, May had fled from violence twice in her life. The first time from war in Syria, and the second from her abusive mother-in-law after she got married. Since…
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‘Just Married’ Amara’s Story
January 30, 2019Advocacy, Child Marriage Comics, Child Marriage Comics, Lebanon, Press Releases

‘Just Married’ Amara’s Story

Amara lives in the Saida shelter in Lebanon and she was a star student in SB OverSeas’ classes, until she no longer could come to school. She got married, pregnant, had a miscarriage and got…
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“Just Married”: Mervat’s Story
December 28, 2018Child Marriage Comics, Child Marriage Comics, Lebanon, Press Releases

“Just Married”: Mervat’s Story

Continuing our comic series on early marriage, this month we learn about Mervat’s story through the incredible artwork and storytelling of Félix Brassier. Read all the comics in the series here. Since the beginning of…
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‘Just Married’: Aisha’s Story
December 1, 2018Advocacy, Child Marriage Comics, Child Marriage Comics, Lebanon, Press Releases

‘Just Married’: Aisha’s Story

Continuing our comic series on early marriage, this month we learn about Aisha’s story through the incredible artwork and storytelling of Félix Brassier. Aisha finds herself in Lebanon after fleeing the war in Syria and…
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‘Just Married’: Unborn Child
October 31, 2018Advocacy, Child Marriage Comics, Child Marriage Comics, Lebanon, Press Releases

‘Just Married’: Unborn Child

The second comic in the series by Félix Brassier tells the story from the perspective of the unborn baby of a child bride. The unborn baby asks questions about the future. Born into a refugee camp to…
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‘Just Married’ : Fatima’s Story
September 28, 2018Advocacy, Child Marriage Comics, Child Marriage Comics, Lebanon, Press Releases

‘Just Married’ : Fatima’s Story

Since the beginning of this year, we have been bringing you our stories we hear from the ground about the practice of child marriage. This started when our chairperson visited Lebanon last September and was…
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