Women’s education helps avert child marriage

Elizabeth Auru – Kenya

I refused early marriage – “Being an educated mother I can cope with so many things in life. I can take my children to school without any problem because I can pay their school fees ; the very moment they fall sick, I’m in a position to take them to the hospital. I can also make them a comfortable house. My luck came because of my mother. She wasn’t educated, but she knew that education could really change my life. And as a child I really listened to what my mother was telling me. That is why I refused marriage early, I said ‘I will put my education first’. My mother told me I have to put God first and get educated. And right now sincerely I have to appreciate her because of what she told me.”

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