Thousands of girls in Morocco are forced to marry off to violent husbands due to a legal loophole. I went through hell. She said that the nightmare is behind her. After a year of marriage, a woman from a remote part of the North African kingdom won a divorce. She is learning to read and write now that she is 20 years old. She said that she was encouraging other girls in the village to do the same as she wanted to be independent. She has changed her name to protect her identity like the other women in the article. The legal age of marriage in Morocco is 18 but there is a clause that allows judges to allow families to marry off children under that age. The loophole has been called for to be closed. More than half of the total applications were approved by judges in 2020. The figure does not include minor marriages that are not recognised in law but are sealed with a simple reading of a verse from the Koran. This tragedy is widespread in remote, landlocked and marginalized areas. For the last 10 years, the association she heads has been taking an annual convoy through the mountains of Morocco to raise awareness of the dangers of child marriage. Precarious livelihoods and long-held traditions make the group's mission particularly sensitive. It's delicate work because it's a taboo subject, so it's vital that we earn the trust of the people we're meeting and most of all listen to them. The battle for independence. There was barely a soul moving among the hills of the nearby village of Tamadghouste. A group of women are making bread at the communal oven. Ikhich spoke with them in Amazigh, a language from Morocco. The women's suspicious looks soon gave way to a flood of complaints over living standards in a village that has neither a school nor a pharmacy. She was taken out of school at the age of six and married at 17 and she said she was trying to take control of her life. I have always wanted to study but nobody helped me. She said that her sisters were married very young, at around 14 years old. The most recent official figures show that more than 44 percent of women are uneducated. Educating woman and making them more economically independent are key to tackling child marriage. She was married at the age of 14 to a man who was 56 years old, four times her age. She said that she got out by getting involved with associations. At the communal oven in Tamadghouste, the women discuss making carpets or selling traditional bread to nearby hotels as ways of making a living. All girls have the right to an education, that's what they agreed on. Izza, who was married six years ago, said she was fighting for her daughter to have an education. 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