mustbe HERCHOICE
19-year-old Bizuhaye Terefe from Ethiopia is happy that she can go back to school after she had stopped earlier. Bizuhaye: 'I was raped when I was 13 and then I became pregnant. That was a very nasty experience. I’m still sad about that. Because I was expecting, I had to quit school – that’s how it works here. I was living with my grandmother at the time because my mother had died a year earlier. After Abity was born, I lived with grandma for a while, but she could no longer care for us. Fortunately my aunt Genzeb then took us home.'
In the North Shoha Ethiopian region, east of the capital Addis Ababa, The Hunger Project is actively working within the Her Choice alliance to end child marriage. In North Shoha, The Hunger Project is focusing on getting drop-outs back to school. Often these are girls who have dropped out of school after a child marriage or teenage pregnancy. The Hunger Project is committed to these girls, so that they can still finish their school and improve their situation – and that of their children. Pictures: Johannes Odé/The Hunger Project
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