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How Schooling Can Save African Girls from Becoming Child Brides

Posted March 17th, 2016 at 2:00 pm (UTC-4)
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How can child marriages be stopped? The answer, research suggests, lies in improving girls’ access to basic education – and in changing school curricula so that both girls and boys realise women can contribute a great deal to their societies if they are not just married off and forgotten.