Still, Malawi officials say that this area’s growing poverty, worsened by AIDS and present crop-killing drought, has put a lot more girls vulnerable to forced wedding.
“This training happens to be here for a very long time, however it is getting even even worse now while there is desperation, ” stated Penston Kilembe, Malawi’s manager of social welfare solutions. “It is very common in communities which have been hard hit by famine.