Families marry off daughters to ease finances amid COVID-19

Families marry off daughters to ease finances amid COVID-19
by Krista Larson, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 14, 2020 3:12 am EDT
Last Updated Dec 14, 2020 at 3:26 am EDT
KOIDU, Sierra Leone — The man first caught a glimpse of Marie Kamara as she ran with her friends past his house near the village primary school. Soon after, he proposed to the fifth-grader.
“I’m going to school now. I don’t want to get married and stay in the house,” she told him.
But the pressures of a pandemic on this remote corner of Sierra Leone were greater than the wishes of a schoolgirl. Nearby mining operations had slowed with the global economy. Business fell off at her stepfather’s tailoring shop. The family needed money.

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