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Pupil picks college over arranged marriage
Publication date 26 January 2023 | 21:28 | ICT

At the age of 14 and with no more than a sixth grade education, Lek Karry’s parents arranged for her to marry a 15-year-old boy from her village whose parents came up with the match.

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