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Families marry off daughters to ease finances amid the pandemic


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.
Her suitor was a poor miner in his mid-20s, but his parents could provide rice for Marie s four sisters and access to a watering hole. They could pay cash. ....

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2020/12/14 16:11
Marie poses for a portrait in Komao village outskirts of Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. The 16-year-old didn’t want to .
Marie poses for a portrait in Komao village outskirts of Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. The 16-year-old didn’t want to get married, but when her now-husband proposed, she and her family were struggling with the economic situation. For that reason she decided to get married. “Now we are together, so if he asks me to get pregnant, I will accept that”, she says. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Marie, center left, sits on a bench with a friend as they look towards a drone photographing them in Komao village outskirts of Koidu, district of Kon. ....

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