Priyanka Chopra tells the inspiring story of an Ethiopian teenager who opposed child marriage

After turning heads with his perfect debut at Cannes earlier this week, Priyanka Chopra landed in Ethiopia

Chopra is in Ethiopia to present UNICEF's education program for children, including refugees and natives struggling with a poor economy and conservative social practices. But this story of a girl who defends child marriage wins hearts.

Sharing photos with Hasina, the 15-year-old actress, the actor explained that at the age of 12, the girl had taken a stand and had put a term to his own marriage.

"This is a grade 7 student who loves going to school," said Chopra in his introduction to adolescence. Speaking of the fact that "her sisters' husband was getting married to one of his friends … without knowing it", Chopra recounted how the girl had defied all "norms" and fought for her own rights.

"One day when the man went home to harbad his parents in order to marry her, she escaped to a friend's house and the next day she went to one of the community's (and only) community-based marriage prevention platforms, which she had heard about at school. She wondered if she would get married now, would she ever go back to school? Hasina loves to learn and is not willing to exchange her education or her freedom for anything. This gave him the courage to defend himself. The community, as well as the authorities, intervened and stopped the marriage. The man was accused, "wrote Chopra in his message.

" It is important to understand that it takes courage to go against these cultural "standards" that have existed for centuries. Hasina is a very brave girl. It was so comforting to see elders in the community learn from examples given by these girls, who stood up against child marriage and female bad mutilation. Education gave these girls this perspective. This community is an example of how change is possible. The rights of women are human rights, "writes the actor.

In another post, Chopra also wrote that even though there has been an increase in the number of entries in schools, there is still much to be done because there are funds to run schools, but also a shortage of teachers and other basic amenities.

Explaining how serious the situation is , she told another inspiring story of a refugee teacher, himself an eighth-grade student, given himself to task to teach little For children from first to fourth grade, so that it can provide for its own studies.

According to UNICEF, 906,000 registered refugees and asylum-seekers in Ethiopia come mainly from South Sudan, Eritrea and South Africa. Somalia.Chopra, which is there to promote access to the education of refugee children, Went the country in an interview with The Associated Press and said it was "amazing, because Ethiopia is not such a wealthy country." She said the world should learn from the world. Government commitment to the welfare of refugee children.