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  • - [Narrator] Gosan Abdu Idris is a man with a mission

  • to end child marriage, and he's doing it with the one thing

  • he has at his disposal:

  • His voice.

  • (speaking foreign language)

  • (uplifting music)

  • Gosan has experienced, firsthand, the institution,

  • which he hopes, himself, to end.

  • Child marriage puts women at a particular disadvantage,

  • because they are often removed from school.

  • With four children, three of them daughters,

  • Gosan works to educate men and women in his community

  • against this practice.

  • Gosan hosts talks.

  • (speaking foreign language)

  • He speaks with men about the the disadvantages

  • of keeping girls out of school.

  • He talks about allowing kids, to be kids.

  • And it works!

  • Many people have changed their minds.

  • Being exposed to these new ideas has had a positive effect.

  • For Gosan, it all comes back to family

  • and to his daughters.

- [Narrator] Gosan Abdu Idris is a man with a mission

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