Protecting girls’ rights

Law

Since I was a girl, I’ve watched schoolfriends marry older men without their consent. I’ve seen girls from my town marry before their minds and bodies were fully matured.

But I was one of the lucky ones, for I had a mother who prioritised education. It wasn’t easy for her, and in many ways she sacrificed herself for us, walking long distances every day to sell fish or secondhand clothes so that she could send us to school. But she did it so we would