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Girls Not Brides | “A wedding should be a happy moment but this was tragic. I knew I was too y

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Girls Not Brides for End Child Marriage

“A wedding should be a happy moment but this was tragic. I knew I was too young.”

Sharina was 14 when she heard she was getting married. She would have to leave behind her school, her friends and her family, and move far away to marry a stranger.

But now that she's a mother herself, she and her husband Nazir are determined to break the cycle of child marriage.

“We will NEVER marry off our daughter.”

Do you support child marriage?

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