child marriage
"Raising a child when you are a child yourself is hard. I should be going to school."
Six percent of girls in the country get married before they turn 18.
Nearly one-third of girls in the country are married by 18.
Neetu Sarkar, married at 13 and a mother of twins at 14, braved poverty and prejudice to follow her dream.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Experts say education is key to keeping girls from becoming child brides.
Photographer Stephanie Sinclair's images aim to raise funds for girls forced into a practice that affects more than 14.2 million girls every year.
Nearly one-third of Bangladeshi girls are married by age 15.
Though child marriage is technically illegal in India, the practice is still relatively common.
It used to be 14, one of the lowest in Europe.