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Name: | Amerah Saleh |
Age: | 21 |
Year of the Fix: | 2014 |
Location: | Birmingham |
Campaign: | To help end child marriage |
In films, weddings are always such a pretty thing.
But for child brides, the reality can be very different.
Young girls forced into marriage often don’t understand the implications. They can feel a part of the celebrations, but what comes next is unexpected.
In the developing world, 1 in 3 girls are married by their 18th birthday, but I want to make others aware that young girls become child brides here too.
British girls can be taken out of school by their families and forced to travel abroad to be married.
It also happens within communities in the UK that we don’t always hear about. They’re smaller communities that are very hard to get into.
With Fixers, my team and I are planning to put on a street performance to raise awareness of child brides.
I hope that this will get people talking about the issue so we can all work together to end child marriage.
Here is a list of Fixers helping me with this Fix:
Simrah Kahn | Anchal Ahmed |
Namiwa Jazz | Yulia Spirina |
Amy Ward | Lewis Flinders |
Luci Hammans | Jasmine Gardosi |
Afrah Yafai | Joe Cook |
Aliyah Denton | Sipho Dube |
Lauren Hutchinson | Rose Makamdem-Magaia |
Nafeesa Hamid | Alexandra Robinson-Sutherland |
My Fixers project has been supported by the Cabinet Office’s Youth Social Action Fund.
As part of the Cabinet Office initiative ‘Step Up to Serve’, which is spearheaded by HRH The Prince of Wales, Fixers is working in partnership with the Youth Social Action Fund (YSAF) to offer the Fixer experience specifically to young people in Birmingham and parts of Kent.
Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation (IKWRO)
Diana Nammi, the Founder and Executive Director of IKWRO, has supported my Fixers project. She agreed to be interviewed to appear in my broadcast piece.
Emily Eve Bridal
Thank you to the bridal shop in Birmingham for allowing the Fixers crew to film scenes for my broadcast story.
Sam Barakat
Ethan Mcinally
Olivia G
Jack H
Sam Womack
Hannah Baker
Chelsie Brown
Macauley Collinson
Shano
Alexandra Garrick
Mary-Anne White and Lucy Wills
Jade Kingdom
Ben Simms
Jo Quinn
Fern Lulham
Hafsa Ur-Rehman
Me and my friends want young people to know that calories aren't the enemy!
Becky Thorn
Tilly and Bella
Mason Latey
'Kate'
Meghann
Shannon Rawlings