Community meetings had told them that a marriage before adulthood could be questioned, and that there was someone to call. Both girls remembered.
The first was fifteen. Her education had stopped after Class VIII and a marriage was planned for later that year. She called and said she wanted it postponed. Her parents, community members and the elected village leadership were brought into the discussion. The family agreed to wait until she reached adulthood.
The second was seventeen. She said she did not want the marriage that had been arranged for her. Family discussions did not stop the preparations. On the reported wedding date, public authorities intervened and the family gave an undertaking that the marriage would not go ahead before she turned eighteen.
Neither girl was rescued from the outside. Each one heard information at a meeting, measured it against her own life, and made contact under pressure from the people she lives with. The reporting route mattered because it connected a decision she had already made to adults who were obliged to act on it.
Postponement is not the end of it. A girl in this position can face renewed pressure, an interrupted education, or retaliation inside her own household.
The question that follow-up has to keep asking is not whether the wedding happened. It is whether the life she wanted to continue - school, work, her own timing - actually became more possible.
She heard the information at a meeting, measured it against her own life, and made the call.
Information, and Someone Who Answers
The whole mechanism is a series of village meetings and a phone number attached to a person a girl already trusts. It costs almost nothing to run and nothing at all to remember.