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Too Young to Wed @tooyoungtowed.bsky.social · 1d

Help her stay in school.
Help her stay free.
Donate now.
#AfghanGirls #TooYoungToWed #RefugeeEmpowerment #GirlsRights

Too Young to Wed @tooyoungtowed.bsky.social · 1d

But in Peshawar, hope is refusing to be deported.
With BEFARe, and support from the Cesarini Foundation and Marriott Daughters Foundation, we stand beside them, defending their right to learn, to choose, to be free.

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Too Young to Wed @tooyoungtowed.bsky.social · 1d

Since January 2025, more than 700,000 Afghans have been sent back from Pakistan, according to the UN Refugee Agency.
Many of them are girls born in exile, now forced into a country where schools are closed, hunger runs deep, and child marriage is seen as survival.

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Too Young to Wed @tooyoungtowed.bsky.social · 1d

As tensions rise between Pakistan and the Taliban, Afghan refugee girls are caught in the middle, on the frontlines of a conflict they never chose.

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Too Young to Wed @tooyoungtowed.bsky.social · 1d

She was 14 when the knock came.
No warning. No time to grab her schoolbooks.
Just fear, and the end of everything she knew.

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Too Young to Wed @tooyoungtowed.bsky.social · 8d

Donate via the link in our bio and help create a safer, brighter future.

#AfghanWomen #LetHerLearn #TooYoungToWed #RightToEducation #WomenUnderTaliban #HerVoiceMatters #GirlsEducation #StandWithAfghanWomen #EndGenderApartheid

Too Young to Wed @tooyoungtowed.bsky.social · 8d

We are sincerely grateful to have grant support from the Isabel Allende Foundation, Malala Fund, Luisa Fere and Brendan Iribe, the Jennifer and Jonathan Allan Soros Foundation, the Cesarini Foundation, and Stern Foundation which support our Afghanistan programming.

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Too Young to Wed @tooyoungtowed.bsky.social · 8d

The Taliban’s fear of women’s knowledge is the fear of change itself.
But Afghan women have always written in the margins, taught in whispers, dreamed behind closed doors.

At Too Young to Wed, we protect their right to dream and keep classrooms alive against repression.

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Too Young to Wed @tooyoungtowed.bsky.social · 8d

The Taliban’s fear of women’s knowledge is the fear of change itself.
But Afghan women have always written in the margins, taught in whispers, dreamed behind closed doors.

At Too Young to Wed, we protect their right to dream and keep classrooms alive against repression.

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Too Young to Wed @tooyoungtowed.bsky.social · 8d

More than 140 books written by Afghan women have been banned.
Lessons on human rights and sexual harassment — erased.
Universities stripped of their voices.

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Too Young to Wed @tooyoungtowed.bsky.social · 13d

Because of you, more girls will stay in school, safe, and full of possibility.
#DayOfTheGirl #TYTWAnniversary #GirlsLeadTheFuture #ResilientGirls #ButterflyProject #TooYoungToWed

Too Young to Wed @tooyoungtowed.bsky.social · 13d

This Day of the Girl, you can help protect a girl’s right to learn and live free.
Your gift given until October 16th will go twice as far, thanks to the generous match from the Isabel Allende Foundation.

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Too Young to Wed @tooyoungtowed.bsky.social · 13d

Every classroom opened, every girl protected, every dream rekindled—it all begins with someone who believes in her. You are part of the architecture of change.

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Too Young to Wed @tooyoungtowed.bsky.social · 13d

hey live in a time when protections for children are eroding—when conflict, poverty, and inequality threaten their right to learn, to lead, to be safe.
That’s why our work matters more than ever.

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Too Young to Wed @tooyoungtowed.bsky.social · 13d

Around the world, girls are rising—and so are we.
Today and everyday, our TYTW team celebrates and honours every girl who dreams beyond survival. From Kenya to Afghanistan, our girls imagine futures built on courage, care, and possibility.

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Too Young to Wed @tooyoungtowed.bsky.social · 16d

Rukaiya’s story is not only about survival.
It’s about justice, leadership, and the power of women who refuse silence.

#WomenLead #JusticeForRukaiya #StopAcidAttacks #ResilientGirls #GirlsOnTheBrink #India #TooYoungToWed

Too Young to Wed @tooyoungtowed.bsky.social · 16d

Now, after twenty-three years, her case has been acknowledged — $5,630 USD in compensation granted, a long-overdue step toward accountability.

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Too Young to Wed @tooyoungtowed.bsky.social · 16d

In 2020, Rukaiya joined Too Young to Wed’s Tehani Photo Workshop with Sheroes Hangout,
co-led by Stephanie Sinclair and Saumya Khandelwal, using photography to reclaim her story and her power.

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Too Young to Wed @tooyoungtowed.bsky.social · 16d

At sixteen, she was attacked with acid after rejecting a man’s advances.
Each year, hundreds of women and girls across India face the same violence — their courage unseen, their justice delayed.

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Too Young to Wed @tooyoungtowed.bsky.social · 16d

For twenty-three years, Rukaiya carried both her scars and her strength.
Today, justice has finally caught up.

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Too Young to Wed @tooyoungtowed.bsky.social · 21d

We refuse a world where periods mean missed education, lost wages, or silenced voices. Ending period poverty is not charity—it is justice.

#PeriodPoverty #MenstrualEquity #EndPeriodPoverty #ProtectGirls

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Too Young to Wed @tooyoungtowed.bsky.social · 21d

Menstruation is not the problem—inequality is.

At Too Young to Wed, we stand with girls and women around the world who are denied the most basic right to manage their health with dignity.

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Too Young to Wed @tooyoungtowed.bsky.social · 21d

In Gaza alone, more than 540,000 women and girls of reproductive age are resorting to rags and sponges. Globally, 1.5 billion people lack private toilets, pushing girls out of classrooms and women away from work, stripping them of dignity and opportunity.

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Too Young to Wed @tooyoungtowed.bsky.social · 21d

Blood stains the calendar, not by choice but by poverty.
Every month, two billion people menstruate—yet millions are forced to do so in silence and shame. One in four teens in the U.S. cannot afford period products.

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Too Young to Wed @tooyoungtowed.bsky.social · 24d

The Taliban offers hunger or indoctrination. With your support, Zahra offers resistance through learning—proof that hope itself can be taught.

#letafghangirlslearn #girlsrights #letgirlslearn

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