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In a sprawling settlement of mud brick huts in western Afghanistan housing people displaced by drought and war, a woman is fighting to save her daughter. Aziz Gul's husband sold the 10-year-old girl into marriage without telling his wife, taking a down-payment so he could feed his family of five children.
A woman displaced by war and drought in Afghanistan is fighting to save her daughter
The mother is trying to raise the money to pay back the groom's family to prevent the marriage from occurring.
Quandi Gul, 10 (right, holding her infant brother), was sold into an arraigned marriage to a 21-year-old man by her father in return for $1,000 that he planned to use to buy food for the rest of the family.
SHEDAI CAMP, Afghanistan — In a sprawling settlement of mud brick huts in western Afghanistan housing people displaced by drought and war, a woman is fighting to save her daughter.