The Childline India Foundation NGO partner HELP stopped two child marriages and also rescued a six-year-old girl in separate incidents on Tuesday.
Parents of the two sisters aged 15 years and 14 years had arranged their marriage with two men aged 25 years and 23 years respectively at Pamuru.
A Childline team rushed to the village and stopped the marriages of the girls, both school dropouts, in time.
The parents gave an undertaking to the District Child Welfare Committee (CWC) not to perform their marriage till they attained the age of 18 years, HELP social activist B.V.Sagar said.
Kid rescued
Meanwhile, a six-year-girl who had been left in the lurch by her estranged parents near the Kothapatnam Bus Stand Centre here was rescued by a childline team. The girl was sent to rescue home ‘Asha Sadan’ on the direction of the CWC.
