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Child Brides - Ethiopia

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  • Priest Addisu Abebe, 23, and his new bride Destaye Amare, 11, are married in a traditional Ethiopian Orthodox wedding in the rural areas outside the city of Gondar, Ethiopia on Feb. 4, 2008. Since Abebe is a priest, it was necessary that he only marry a virgin.
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  • Priest Addisu Abebe, 23, and his new bride Destaye Amare, 11, are married in a traditional Ethiopian Orthodox wedding in the rural areas outside the city of Gondar, Ethiopia on Feb. 3, 2008. Since Abebe is a priest, it was necessary that he only marry a virgin.
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  • Priest Addisu Abebe, 23, and his new bride Destaye Amare, 11, are married in a traditional Ethiopian Orthodox wedding in the rural areas outside the city of Gondar, Ethiopia on Feb. 3, 2008. Since Abebe is a priest, it was necessary that he only marry a virgin.
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  • Priest Addisu Abebe, 23, and his new bride Destaye Amare, 11, are married in a traditional Ethiopian Orthodox wedding in the rural areas outside the city of Gondar, Ethiopia on Feb. 4, 2008. Since Abebe is a priest, it was necessary that he only marry a virgin.
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  • Priest Addisu Abebe, 23, and his new bride Destaye Amare, 11, are married in a traditional Ethiopian Orthodox wedding in the rural areas outside the city of Gondar, Ethiopia on Feb. 4, 2008. Since Abebe is a priest, it was necessary that he only marry a virgin.
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  • Priest Addisu Abebe, 23, and his new bride Destaye Amare, 11, are married in a traditional Ethiopian Orthodox wedding in the rural areas outside the city of Gondar, Ethiopia on Feb. 4, 2008. Since Abebe is a priest, it was necessary that he only marry a virgin.
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  • Priest Addisu Abebe, 23, and his new bride Destaye Amare, 11, are married in a traditional Ethiopian Orthodox wedding in the rural areas outside the city of Gondar, Ethiopia on Feb. 4, 2008. Since Abebe is a priest, it was necessary that he only marry a virgin.
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  • Tsegaya Mekonen, 13, and Talema Meseret, 23, sit together for the first time as husband and wife in Yeganda Village, Amhara Region, Ethopia on May 20, 2007. The practice of early marriage remains widespread in Ethiopia, especially in the northern Amhara and Tigray regions, where parents consent to their daughters' consummated marriages when they are still as young as 10 or 12. In Amhara, 50 percent of girls are married by the age of 15, despite the enactment in 2000 of the revised Family Law, which sets the legal age for marriage at 18.
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  • Priest Addisu Abebe, 23, and his new bride Destaye Amare, 11, are married in a traditional Ethiopian Orthodox wedding in the rural areas outside the city of Gondar, Ethiopia on Feb. 4, 2008. Since Abebe is a priest, it was necessary that he only marry a virgin.
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  • Tsegaya Mekonen, 13, gets ready to meet her groom Talema Meseret, 23, on their wedding day in Yeganda Village, Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 20, 2007. The practice of early marriage remains widespread in Ethiopia, especially in the northern Amhara and Tigray regions, where parents consent to their daughters' consummated marriages when they are still as young as 10 or 12. In Amhara, 50 percent of girls are married by the age of 15, despite the enactment in 2000 of the revised Family Law, which sets the legal age for marriage at 18.
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  • Tsegaya Mekonen, 13, sits with her friends while waiting for her groom Talema Meseret, 20, on their wedding day in Yeganda Village, Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 23, 2007. The practice of early marriage remains widespread in Ethiopia, especially in the northern Amhara and Tigray regions, where parents consent to their daughters' consummated marriages when they are still as young as 10 or 12. In Amhara, 50 percent of girls are married by the age of 15, despite the enactment in 2000 of the revised Family Law, which sets the legal age for marriage at 18.
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  • Tsegaya Mekonen, 13, sits with her friends while waiting for her groom Talema Meseret, 20, on their wedding day in Yeganda Village, Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 23, 2007. The practice of early marriage remains widespread in Ethiopia, especially in the northern Amhara and Tigray regions, where parents consent to their daughters' consummated marriages when they are still as young as 10 or 12. In Amhara, 50 percent of girls are married by the age of 15, despite the enactment in 2000 of the revised Family Law, which sets the legal age for marriage at 18.
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  • Tsegaya Mekonen, 13, gets ready to meet her groom Talema Meseret, 23, on their wedding day in Yeganda Village, Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 20, 2007. The practice of early marriage remains widespread in Ethiopia, especially in the northern Amhara and Tigray regions, where parents consent to their daughters' consummated marriages when they are still as young as 10 or 12. In Amhara, 50 percent of girls are married by the age of 15, despite the enactment in 2000 of the revised Family Law, which sets the legal age for marriage at 18.
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  • Children sing and clap at the wedding of Tsegaya Mekonen, 13, and Talema Meseret, 23 in Yeganda Village, Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 20, 2007. The practice of early marriage remains widespread in Ethiopia, especially in the northern Amhara and Tigray regions, where parents consent to their daughters' consummated marriages when they are still as young as 10 or 12. In Amhara, 50 percent of girls are married by the age of 15, despite the enactment in 2000 of the revised Family Law, which sets the legal age for marriage at 18.
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  • Priest Nigatu Alebachew peforms the marriage of Tsegaya Mekonen, 13, and Talema Meseret, 23, in Yeganda Village, Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 20, 2007. The practice of early marriage remains widespread in Ethiopia, especially in the northern Amhara and Tigray regions, where parents consent to their daughters' consummated marriages when they are still as young as 10 or 12. In Amhara, 50 percent of girls are married by the age of 15, despite the enactment in 2000 of the revised Family Law, which sets the legal age for marriage at 18.
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  • Priest Nigatu Alebachew dances with guests after peforming the marriage of Tsegaya Mekonen, 13, and Talema Meseret, 23, in Yeganda Village, Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 20, 2007. The practice of early marriage remains widespread in Ethiopia, especially in the northern Amhara and Tigray regions, where parents consent to their daughters? consummated marriages when they are still as young as 10 or 12. In Amhara, 50 percent of girls are married by the age of 15, despite the enactment in 2000 of the revised Family Law, which sets the legal age for marriage at 18.
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  • Tsegaya Mekonen, 13, and Talema Meseret, 23, are married at her home in Yeganda Village, Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 20, 2007. The practice of early marriage remains widespread in Ethiopia, especially in the northern Amhara and Tigray regions, where parents consent to their daughters? consummated marriages when they are still as young as 10 or 12. In Amhara, 50 percent of girls are married by the age of 15, despite the enactment in 2000 of the revised Family Law, which sets the legal age for marriage at 18.
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  • Relatives of the young bride, Leyualem Mucha, 14, show wait for visitors along the road to her home in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 23, 2007.  Leyualem had never met her husband before her wedding day, yet sumitted as they bound her in the white wedding cloth. The men later said it was placed over her head so she would not be able to find her way back home, should she want to escape the marriage.
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  • The groomsmen for Alelegn Challe, 23, dance outside the hut where he was waiting for his bride, Leyualem Mucha, 14, in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 23, 2007.  Leyualem had never met her husband before her wedding day, yet sumitted as they bound her in the white wedding cloth. The men later said it was placed over her head so she would not be able to find her way back home, should she want to escape the marriage.
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  • Leyualem Mucha, 14, has a moment alone before being wisked away on a mule by her new groom and groomsmen in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 23, 2007.  Leyualem had never met her husband before her wedding day, yet sumitted as they bound her in the white wedding cloth. The men later said it was placed over her head so she would not be able to find her way back home, should she want to escape the marriage.
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  • Leyualem Mucha, 14, walks by her mother Enat Ante, as she prepares for her groom in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 23, 2007. Leyualem had never met her husband before her wedding day, yet sumitted as they bound her in the white wedding cloth. The men later said it was placed over her head so she would not be able to find her way back home, should she want to escape the marriage.
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  • Leyualem Mucha, 14, has her hair trimmed behind her home in preparation of her wedding in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 23, 2007. Leyualem had never met her husband before her wedding day, yet sumitted as they bound her in the white wedding cloth. The men later said it was placed over her head so she would not be able to find her way back home, should she want to escape the marriage.
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  • With ink put on her index finger, Leyualem Mucha, 14, "signs" her marriage contract, which she could not read and was never explained to her in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 23, 2007.  Leyualem had never met her husband before her wedding day, yet sumitted as they bound her in the white wedding cloth. The men later said it was placed over her head so she would not be able to find her way back home, should she want to escape the marriage.
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  • Leyualem Mucha, 14, has a moment alone before being wisked away on a mule by her new groom and groomsmen in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 23, 2007.  Leyualem had never met her husband before her wedding day, yet sumitted as they bound her in the white wedding cloth. The men later said it was placed over her head so she would not be able to find her way back home, should she want to escape the marriage.
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  • Family members place a white cloth over the head of Leyualem Mucha, 14, as she is prepared to be wisked away on a mule by her new groom and groomsmen in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 23, 2007.  Leyualem had never met her husband before her wedding day, yet sumitted as they bound her in the white wedding cloth. The men later said it was placed over her head so she would not be able to find her way back home, should she want to escape the marriage.
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  • Leyualem Mucha, 14, is wisked away on a mule by her new groom and groomsmen in the  Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 23, 2007.  Leyualem had never met her husband before her wedding day, yet sumitted as they bound her in the white wedding cloth. The men later said it was placed over her head so she would not be able to find her way back home, should she want to escape the marriage.
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  • Leyualem Mucha, 14, is greeted with gunshots as she arrives at the home of her new husband in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 23, 2007. Leyualem had never met her husband before her wedding day, yet sumitted as they bound her in the white wedding cloth. The men later said it was placed over her head so she would not be able to find her way back home, should she want to escape the marriage.
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  • Alelegn Challe, 23, and his bride, Leyualem Mucha, 14, sit together for the first time at his home on their wedding day in Yeganda Village,   Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 23, 2007.
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  • Family members dance moments before Leyualem Mucha, 14, is taken to her new home in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 23, 2007.  Leyualem had never met her husband before her wedding day, yet sumitted as they bound her in the white wedding cloth. The men later said it was placed over her head so she would not be able to find her way back home, should she want to escape the marriage.
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  • Village elders wait for the groom Alelegn Challe, 23, to give him gifts and blessings on the day of his marriage to Leyualem Mucha, 14, in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 23, 2007.  According to studies conducted by the National Committee on Traditional Practices of Ethiopia, NCTPE, 57 percent of girls in Ethiopia marry before the age of 18. The practice occurs in its more extreme forms in northern Ethiopia with girls getting married as young as eight- and nine-years-old, and in some instances are even pledged at birth. Early marriage rates in Amhara and Tigray region are much higher than the national average, 82 and 78 percent respectively.
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  • Alemenesh Bere, 11, is comforted by the sisters of her new husband Manale Bihone, 23, in the Yeterater Miriam village outside of Bahir Dar, Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 26, 2007.  Because many married adolescents are pulled out of school at an early age, they may be unfamiliar with basic reproductive health issues, including the risk of HIV. Married adolescents often face familial and societal expectations to have children as soon as they are married. Even if contraceptive services are available, married adolescent girls may lack the power to use them, aggravating the risks of maternal mortality and morbidity for pregnant adolescents.
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  • A family gathers water from a stream outside of Bahir Dar, Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 23, 2007.
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  • Alemenesh Bere, 11, and Manale Bihone, 23, sit together during their marriage celebration in the Yeterater Miriam village outside of Bahir Dar, Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 26, 2007.  They had never met before their marriage. It was the groom's father to arrange the wedding after hearing from fellow farmers that this girl would be a good wife. Because many married adolescents are pulled out of school at an early age, they may be unfamiliar with basic reproductive health issues, including the risk of HIV. Married adolescents often face familial and societal expectations to have children as soon as they are married. Even if contraceptive services are available, married adolescent girls may lack the power to use them, aggravating the risks of maternal mortality and morbidity for pregnant adolescents.
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  • Alemenesh Bere, 11, is comforted by the sisters of her new husband Manale Bihone, 23, in the Yeterater Miriam village outside of Bahir Dar, Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 26, 2007. Because many married adolescents are pulled out of school at an early age, they may be unfamiliar with basic reproductive health issues, including the risk of HIV. Married adolescents often face familial and societal expectations to have children as soon as they are married. Even if contraceptive services are available, married adolescent girls may lack the power to use them, aggravating the risks of maternal mortality and morbidity for pregnant adolescents.
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  • Guests place money on the head of groom Manale Bihone, 23, during his wedding celebration to Alemenesh Bere, 11, in the Yeterater Miriam village outside of Bahir Dar, Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 26, 2007.  Because many married adolescents are pulled out of school at an early age, they may be unfamiliar with basic reproductive health issues, including the risk of HIV. Married adolescents often face familial and societal expectations to have children as soon as they are married. Even if contraceptive services are available, married adolescent girls may lack the power to use them, aggravating the risks of maternal mortality and morbidity for pregnant adolescents.
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  • Alemenesh Bere, 11, and Manale Bihone, 23, sit together during their marriage celebration in the Yeterater Miriam village outside of Bahir Dar, Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 26, 2007. They had never met before their marriage. It was the groom's father to arrange the wedding after hearing from fellow farmers that this girl would be a good wife. Because many married adolescents are pulled out of school at an early age, they may be unfamiliar with basic reproductive health issues, including the risk of HIV. Married adolescents often face familial and societal expectations to have children as soon as they are married. Even if contraceptive services are available, married adolescent girls may lack the power to use them, aggravating the risks of maternal mortality and morbidity for pregnant adolescents.
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  • Babies lie next to each other at a hospital in Bahir Dar, Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 19, 2007. Young women recover from fistula surgery at the The Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, a common result of prolonged obstucted labor and early marriage. Women who have fistulas are often shunned in their villages and thought of a cursed by God.
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  • Yekaba Kerebet, 15, rests in the hospital after finally giving birth to a baby boy in Bahir Dar, Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 19, 2007. She had been in labor for three days with her first born. She later developed a fistula, a common result of prolonged obstucted labor and early marriage. Women who have fistulas are often shunned in their villages and thought of a cursed by God.
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  • Yekaba Kerebet, 15, is carried to the hospital by her relatives in Bahir Dar, Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 19, 2007. She had been in labor for three days with her first born. She later developed a fistula, a common result of prolonged obstucted labor and early marriage. Women who have fistulas are often shunned in their villages and thought of a cursed by God.
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  • Young women recover from fistula surgery at the The Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, a common result of prolonged obstucted labor and early marriage in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on May 30, 2007. Women who have fistulas are often shunned in their villages and thought of a cursed by God.
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  • Young women recover from fistula surgery at the The Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, a common result of prolonged obstucted labor and early marriage in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on May 30, 2007. Women who have fistulas are often shunned in their villages and thought of a cursed by God.
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  • Elsa Haile, 20, prepares a traditional coffee ceremony for visitors in her home in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia on May 17, 2007. At age 11, Elsa ran away from home the day she was supposed to get married to a neighboring villager. She was later offered a job in a restaurant, but it turned out to be a brothel. Elsa does not know who fathered her daughter and has yet decided to test herself or her child for HIV, but she hopes to someday escape from nightmare her life has become.
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  • A young prostitute named China sits stunned after being beat up by a man visiting Kabele Five in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia on May 17, 2007. Many of the girls running away from child marriages end up trafficked to brothels where they face incredible violence.
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  • Elsa Haile, 20, prepares for church in her home in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia on May 27 2007. At age 11, Elsa ran away from home the day she was supposed to get married to a neighboring villager. She was later offered a job in a restaurant, but it turned out to be a brothel. Elsa does not know who fathered her daughter and has yet decided to test herself or her child for HIV, but she hopes to someday escape from nightmare her life has become.
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  • Elsa Haile, 20, center, back, walks through the courtyard of St. George Church in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia on May 27, 2007.  At age 11, Elsa ran away from home the day she was supposed to get married to a neighboring villager. She was later offered a job in a restaurant, but it turned out to be a brothel. Elsa does not know who fathered her daughter and has yet decided to test herself or her child for HIV, but she hopes to someday escape from nightmare her life has become.
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  • Elsa Haile, 20, prays at St. George Church while Senaiet, 5, looks on in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia on May 27, 2007.  At age 11, Elsa ran away from home the day she was supposed to get married to a neighboring villager. She was later offered a job in a restaurant, but it turned out to be a brothel. Elsa does not know who fathered her daughter and has yet decided to test herself or her child for HIV, but she hopes to someday escape from nightmare her life has become.
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  • Public service announcements, warning against issues like AIDS and marriage by abduction, adorn the walls of Elsa Haile's home where she now works as a prostitute in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia on May 27, 2007.  At age 11, Elsa, 20, ran away from home the day she was supposed to get married to a neighboring villager. She was later offered a job in a restaurant, but it turned out to be a brothel. Elsa does not know who fathered her daughter and has yet decided to test herself or her child for HIV, but she hopes to someday escape from nightmare her life has become.
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  • Public service announcements, warning against issues like AIDS and marriage by abduction, adorn the walls of Elsa Haile's home where she now works as a prostitute in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia on May 27, 2007.  At age 11, Elsa, 20, ran away from home the day she was supposed to get married to a neighboring villager. She was later offered a job in a restaurant, but it turned out to be a brothel. Elsa does not know who fathered her daughter and has yet decided to test herself or her child for HIV, but she hopes to someday escape from nightmare her life has become.
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  • Elsa Haile, 20, waits for customers in the doorway of her home while daughter Senaiet, 5, looks on in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia on May 28, 2007. At age 11, Elsa ran away from home the day she was supposed to get married to a neighboring villager. She was later offered a job in a restaurant, but it turned out to be a brothel. Elsa does not know who fathered her daughter and has yet decided to test herself or her child for HIV, but she hopes to someday escape from nightmare her life has become.
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  • Elsa Haile, 20, beckons her daughter Senaiet, 5, in the early morning before church in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia on May 27, 2007.  At age 11, Elsa ran away from home the day she was supposed to get married to a neighboring villager. She was later offered a job in a restaurant, but it turned out to be a brothel. Elsa does not know who fathered her daughter and has yet decided to test herself or her child for HIV, but she hopes to someday escape from nightmare her life has become.
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  • Agere Admassu, 32, breastfeeds her twin newborns, Testa and Mihret in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia on May 24, 2007.  Agere was married at age 12 to her husband who later slept with other women and gave her AIDS. The twins have tested HIV positive, and since her husband left, she does not have the money to buy them uninfected milk.
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  • Men wait to greet travelers at the main bus station in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia on May 28, 2007. Brokers often look for young girls traveling alone, promising them a good life with lots of money. Often they are trafficked to brothels in exchange for a mere $5. Workers from the Forum for Street Children, a local NGO, have teamed up with the local police to help curb this occurrence, educating brokers about childrens' rights and trying to intercept the girls before they meet the brokers.
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  • Four married or engaged Muslim school girls sit together in the school office in Merawi Village near Bahir Dar, Ethiopia on May 22, 2007. Age-old traditions, such as early marriage, which is a common phenomenon in much of the country, reinforce attitudes that decry the need to send girls to school. Most married girls, who would like to continue their schooling, are often prevented from doing so. These girls are lucky. High levels of adult illiteracy rates, with only one in four adults in rural areas able to read and write, and often abject poverty exacerbate the situation.
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  • Martha Mengistu and Deputy Sgt. Tiruwork Maimanot intercept a young girl as she comes off the bus at the main bus station in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia on May 28, 2008.  Brokers often look for young girls traveling alone, promising them a good life with lots of money. Often they are trafficked to brothels in exchange for a mere $5. Workers from the Forum for Street Children, a local NGO, have teamed up with the local police to help curb this occurrence, educating brokers about childrens' rights and trying to intercept the girls before they meet the brokers.
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  • Young girls peer out the windows of a bus at the main bus station in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia on May 28, 2007.  Brokers often look for young girls traveling alone, promising them a good life with lots of money. Often they are trafficked to brothels in exchange for a mere $5. Workers from the Forum for Street Children, a local NGO, have teamed up with the local police to help curb this occurrence, educating brokers about childrens' rights and trying to intercept the girls before they meet the brokers.
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  • Members of the Adet village Women's Affairs office try to convince a father not to marry off his 8-year-old daughter in Adet Village, Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 17, 2007.  He agreed to their request.
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  • Members of the Adet village Women's Affairs office try to convince a father not to marry off his 8-year-old daughter in Adet Village, Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 17, 2007. He agreed to their request.
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  • Teenagers watch a series of skits put on by the Fistula Girls Club and the Community-based Reproductive Association in Shende Village, Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 16, 2007.  This is one of many events hosted by the groups to discourage early marriage and other harmful traditional practices in the Bure district.
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  • Two actors perform a series of skits put on by the Fistula Girls Club and the Community-based Reproductive Association in Shende Village, Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 16, 2007. This is one of many events hosted by the groups to discourage early marriage and other harmful traditional practices in the Bure district.
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  • Tigist Chekol, 18, gets ready to perform a traditional dance during a show by the Fistula Girls Club and the Community-based Reproductive Association in Shende Village, Amhara Region, Ethiopia on May 16,  2007. This is one of many events hosted by the groups to discourage early marriage and other harmful traditional practices in the Bure district.
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  • Street girls attend classes at Godanaw Rehabilitation Integrated Project, GRIP, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on May 10, 2007. This is a  local humanitarian shelter that has provided skills training and health care to some thousands of street girls--three-quarters of them escapees from early marriages in the countryside.
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  • Street girls attend classes at Godanaw Rehabilitation Integrated Project, GRIP,  in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on May 30, 2007. This is a local humanitarian shelter that has provided skills training and health care to some thousands of street girls--three-quarters of them escapees from early marriages in the countryside.
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  • Street girls attend classes at Godanaw Rehabilitation Integrated Project, GRIP, in Addis Ababa on May 30, 2007. This is a local humanitarian shelter that has provided skills training and health care to some thousands of street girls--three-quarters of them escapees from early marriages in the countryside.
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