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The teenage taekwondo trainer fighting child marriage in Zimbabwe – photo essay

Natsiraishe Maritsa saw so many friends being forced into marriage that she started a campaign to drive out the practice.

It is 11am on a Sunday and Natsiraishe Maritsa, 17, is running through some workout drills with a group of sweating teenage girls from her neighbourhood in Epworth, a poor township nine miles (15km) south-east of the capital, Harare.

On a normal Sunday, Maritsa and her friends would be attending church, but the strict 30-day lockdown imposed by the government earlier this month has banned religious gatherings – so it’s time to catch up on a taekwondo training session.

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