Asha (in pink), who got married at age 16, mentors young girls on the importance of education in Barahataal. - AFP
TEENAGER Asha Charti Karki told her parents she was going out to study, but instead she ran off to wed her boyfriend – one of a growing number of Nepali teenagers who are marrying young by choice.
“There were rumours about us in the village and I had fights at home. I felt I had no choice but to run away, ” Karki said at her home in the western district of Surkhet.
