Stitching Up Poverty #3 Child Marriage

This is the Stitching up Poverty podcast. This series of five podcasts examines the impact of a remarkable project aimed at helping some of the most marginalized people in the world. Women and girls in rural villages in Sindh province in Pakistan. Life is unrelenting for the women and girls in these villages. They face deep-rooted poverty, have no, or very limited access, to education and have few opportunities to work. The villages they live in are dominated by the men – violence against the women and girls is common and choices about their own lives are not in their own hands. In this episode we look at the project’s impact on child marriage another factor in the cycle of male dominance and enforced female subservience in the region