Today’s episode will focus on the story called Broken Promise from the BRAC reader series. 

This story is about a 15 years old girl called Nafisatu, who agrees to marry a man twice her age when he makes a promise to her mother. Nafisatu has no choice in whether to get marries since that was her father's decision. Will her new husband keep his promise?

After this episode, you will be able to:

1. Define child, early and forced marriage

2. Consider how child marriage can have serious consequences for adolescent girls in Sierra Leone

3. Explain how married couples can make use of family planning

We would like to thank Brac Sierra Leone for sharing the Girls Reader Series stories with us for the radio teaching programme. You can contact them directly for the printed copies of this wonderful set of 11 short stories.

*This podcast is created from the recordings prepared for the Sierra Leone Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education Radio Teaching Programme. The programme is coordinated by the Directorate of Non-Formal Education, with support from UNFPA and Irish Aid.