A former child bride in Afghanistan finds hope and new life during COVID-19

HERAT, Afghanistan –Mahgul* vividly remembers the day she was engaged to be married. “My mother helped me into my new pink dress. She accompanied me to a room where four or five women had gathered. Some of them called me ‘little bride’,” Mahgul recalled in a recent interview with UNFPA. “I was confused. I looked at my mother, and she said that I was to become engaged. I wa s 7.”Mahgul lives in a village in Herat, Afghanistan, where her betrothal at that young age was considered normal.
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