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The child brides of climate change

Brides Of The Sun. L-R: Carlina Nortino, 15; Muacheia Amade, 14; Lucia Eusebio, 15, Fatima Amisse, 14

Charity Lloyd, 19. She got married at the age of 17 after her mother died during heavy flooding in the Nsanje district of Malawi, an event blamed by some experts on changing climate. Her father had died a few years earlier. She lives in Malakeza village in the Nsanje district of Malawi with her husband Isaac Chuva, 23 and their daughter Eveless, one and a half years old.

Majuma Julio is 17 years old and lives on the edge of the town of Moma in Nampula Province on the east coast of Mozambique. She was living with an uncle in the town when she married Juma Momade, 21, two years ago when she was 15. They have a one and a half year old daughter, Fatima Juma.

Ntoya Sande is 15 and lives in Kachaso village, Nsanje district, Malawi. She was married at 13 to Sande Chimkangu, who was 19 at the time. They have a one year old daughter, Silika Sande. He paid her parents MWK 25,000 ($34) and 50 kg of sugar. Their crops were destroyed by the flooding which swamped the district in 2015.

Filomena Antonio is 19. Her husband Momade Churute, 27, paid her father MT 2,000 ($33) to marry her when she was 15. She has 10 brothers and two sisters. She and have two sons, Amadinho, 2, and Azamad, aged two months. They live in the town of Moma in Nampula Province on the east coast of Mozambique

Lucy Anusa is 15 years old and was married at 14. She gave birth to a daughter earlier this year but has been abandoned by her husband. The youngest of three sisters, she now lives with her parents in Namalaka near the southern end of Lake Malawi.

Theresa Januario was married at the age of 15. Now 22, she lives with her parents and her two children - daughter Atija, three, and son David, one - in Moma in Nampula Province, on the east coast of Mozambique. She left school shortly after her marriage and her fisherman husband Amiro Age, 25, abandoned her to look for work in the city of Beira in 2015. He has never returned.

Carlina Nortino is 15. Her husband Horacio Manuel is 16. They were married when she was just 13. He promised her father MT 1,500 ($25) for her hand in marriage. The couple live in the village of Nataka in Larde district, Mozambique. Their first child was still-born earlier this year.

Maliya Mapira is 16 years old. She married husband Maliki Hestone when she was 15 and the couple live in Swarare village, Ngokwe, Malawi, with their six month old son Bashiru Akim. When a teacher got her pregnant, her parents were unable to support her so she chose to marry instead.

Rute Fumulani is 16 years old and lives in the village of Kachaso, Nsanje district, Malawi. She lost both her parents in catastrophic flooding that hit the area in 2015. She married husband Fumulani in the same year at the age of 14: the couple have a son, Thokozani, aged one year and two months. They live in a two room hut with her husband's nine year old brother, Eliya, and five year old sister, Amines. They earn a maximum of MWK 500 (about 50p) on days they can find work and eat only on three days a week.

Agnes Mposwa is 15 years old. She was married at the aged of 14 and has a four month old daughter. She lives with her 18 year old husband Simon in Muwawa village in Malawi. She is waiting for her exam results.

Fatima Mussa is 16 and nine months pregnant. She is the oldest of seven children, six of them girls. She lives in Nataka, in the district of Larde, near the coast in eastern Mozambique. She married 18-year-old Priorina Manuel Antonio when she was 15. He had offered her father MT 2,000 ($33). The high levels of poverty in the district meant there was no party or gifts for the young couple.

Brides Of The Sun. L-R: Carlina Nortino, 15; Muacheia Amade, 14; Lucia Eusebio, 15, Fatima Amisse, 14

Charity Lloyd, 19. She got married at the age of 17 after her mother died during heavy flooding in the Nsanje district of Malawi, an event blamed by some experts on changing climate. Her father had died a few years earlier. She lives in Malakeza village in the Nsanje district of Malawi with her husband Isaac Chuva, 23 and their daughter Eveless, one and a half years old.

Majuma Julio is 17 years old and lives on the edge of the town of Moma in Nampula Province on the east coast of Mozambique. She was living with an uncle in the town when she married Juma Momade, 21, two years ago when she was 15. They have a one and a half year old daughter, Fatima Juma.

Ntoya Sande is 15 and lives in Kachaso village, Nsanje district, Malawi. She was married at 13 to Sande Chimkangu, who was 19 at the time. They have a one year old daughter, Silika Sande. He paid her parents MWK 25,000 ($34) and 50 kg of sugar. Their crops were destroyed by the flooding which swamped the district in 2015.

Filomena Antonio is 19. Her husband Momade Churute, 27, paid her father MT 2,000 ($33) to marry her when she was 15. She has 10 brothers and two sisters. She and have two sons, Amadinho, 2, and Azamad, aged two months. They live in the town of Moma in Nampula Province on the east coast of Mozambique

Lucy Anusa is 15 years old and was married at 14. She gave birth to a daughter earlier this year but has been abandoned by her husband. The youngest of three sisters, she now lives with her parents in Namalaka near the southern end of Lake Malawi.

Theresa Januario was married at the age of 15. Now 22, she lives with her parents and her two children - daughter Atija, three, and son David, one - in Moma in Nampula Province, on the east coast of Mozambique. She left school shortly after her marriage and her fisherman husband Amiro Age, 25, abandoned her to look for work in the city of Beira in 2015. He has never returned.

Carlina Nortino is 15. Her husband Horacio Manuel is 16. They were married when she was just 13. He promised her father MT 1,500 ($25) for her hand in marriage. The couple live in the village of Nataka in Larde district, Mozambique. Their first child was still-born earlier this year.

Maliya Mapira is 16 years old. She married husband Maliki Hestone when she was 15 and the couple live in Swarare village, Ngokwe, Malawi, with their six month old son Bashiru Akim. When a teacher got her pregnant, her parents were unable to support her so she chose to marry instead.

Rute Fumulani is 16 years old and lives in the village of Kachaso, Nsanje district, Malawi. She lost both her parents in catastrophic flooding that hit the area in 2015. She married husband Fumulani in the same year at the age of 14: the couple have a son, Thokozani, aged one year and two months. They live in a two room hut with her husband's nine year old brother, Eliya, and five year old sister, Amines. They earn a maximum of MWK 500 (about 50p) on days they can find work and eat only on three days a week.

Charity Lloyd, 19. She got married at the age of 17 after her mother died during heavy flooding in the Nsanje district of Malawi, an event blamed by some experts on changing climate. Her father had died a few years earlier. She lives in Malakeza village in the Nsanje district of Malawi. Pictured with her husband Isaac Chuva, 23 and their daughter Eveless, one and a half years old.

Agnes Mposwa is 15 years old. She was married at the aged of 14 and has a four month old daughter. She lives with her 18 year old husband Simon in Muwawa village in Malawi. She is waiting for her exam results.

Fatima Mussa is 16 and nine months pregnant. She is the oldest of seven children, six of them girls. She lives in Nataka, in the district of Larde, near the coast in eastern Mozambique. She married 18-year-old Priorina Manuel Antonio when she was 15. He had offered her father MT 2,000 ($33). The high levels of poverty in the district meant there was no party or gifts for the young couple.

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