Former Child Bride Is Pedaling Her Way To A Brighter Future
After Jenipher Sanni was married at 14, she dropped out of school for a year. Today, she's a a global girl advocate for the U.N. Foundation.
by Courtney Columbus
Jul 22, 2017
2 minutes
At 14, Jenipher Sanni married a man who already had a wife and kids. He yelled at her a lot. She dropped out of school.
Now 20, she's left her husband and is a newly minted high school graduate. And she's helping girls in her community stay in school.
This week, she was in Washington, D.C., to share her story with 300 girl advocates from
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