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Saundatti Festival
Each January, nearly half a million people visit the small town of Saundatti for a jatre, or festival, to be blessed by Yellamma, the Hindu goddess of prosperity. Devadasis consider Yellamma as their god.
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Challenging early marriage in Malawi
In rural Malawi young girls are leaving their families to marry from a young age. They do this because of poverty, adult migration, hunger and the HIV/AIDS crisis all of which are fragmenting vulnerable families. EveryChild is working with communities in rural Malawi through child rights clubs, parenting classes and children’s corners to challenge this practice and encourage girls to access their rights to an education and a childhood.
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Child prisoners in Cambodia
Photographer Matt Writtle recently travelled with EveryChild to see how poor children who become separated from their parents to live and work on the streets, are subject to violence and exploitation and may end up in prison without trial.
In this slideshow, produced for the Guardian website, Matt meets some children living and working on the streets in Cambodia, and gains unique access to some of Cambodia’s provincial prisons and children incarcerated there. > Watch and listen to our audio slideshow
20th Anniversary of UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
20 years on from the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child EveryChild is warning that at least 24 million children are growing up without a parent and in poor countries their number is growing rapidly.
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Conflict in Georgia - One Year On
In March, David Levene, Guardian photographer, travelled to Georgia to document the work done by EveryChild to help families displaced by war.
> Watch David Levene's audio slideshow on The Guardian
Children with disabilities - Azerbaijan
In Azerbaijan, there are over 2,000 children with disabilities who are still living away from their families in Soviet-era children's homes. The UK charity EveryChild and local partner UAFA (United Aid for Azerbaijan) is helping to prevent children with disabilities from growing up in harmful children's homes.
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