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Samburu: The fight against child marriage

The Documentary Podcast

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Documentary, sambur, the fight against child marriage. The legal age for marriage in kena is 18 but an estimated 80% of girls there do not go to school. Doctor Josephine colea has been looking after a 13-year-old girl who was married off when she was just 11 years old. She first persuaded the kenyon police to help her enforce the law by sending them overnight to pick up the girl and educate her.

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