‘My story is Africa’s story’ Sierra Leone’s First Lady is on a mission to save children from child marriage. By S_Fleary1
SIERRA LEONE’S First Lady Fatima Maada Bio is a woman on a mission, she wants to see her country and the rest of Africa rise.
She is passionate about championing women’s and girls’ rights because of her own horrifying first-hand experience of being a victim of child marriage.“By the time I was 12, I was already married off and the paedophile was just waiting for me to be shipped off. This person that I was calling uncle is now going to be my husband and it kills your dream immediately.
Arriving in the UK in 1996, as a teenage refugee, Maada Bio was one of those people. She recalls the war being “the worst thing to happen to your country” but also feels it was her own “salvation” because it meant she was not sent to the matrimonial home to begin a life as a child bride.
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