CCP Finds Success in Reducing Child Marriage in Malawi
In Malawi, 42 percent of girls are married before their 18th birthday. With the help of CCP, that is slowly changing.
In Malawi, 42 percent of girls are married before their 18th birthday. With the help of CCP, that is slowly changing.
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Akiya Akhter, married as a teen, was able to postpone having a baby until she was 20. Aproma Marma, after losing her first child to malnutrition when elders insisted that she eat and sleep less during pregnancy, now has a healthy two-year-old. Mahbuba Siddiqua changed
“It may seem that it is only the adolescent girls are the victims of child marriage,” CCP’s Faisal Mahmud says. “But in reality, child marriage brings worse consequences to the family and to the whole nation.”
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