His grandmother, Ruth Khumalo, had come to the village as a young girl.
Villagers say that no girl may marry into a neighbouring village until her in-laws promise to provide a girl in return.
By the age of 30, says Mr Singh, he had given up hope of finding a girl from his own village, Nandgaon, or from his state.
My father had perfectly valid worries: how would a DeafBlind girl survive in an African village, let alone build a school?
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Ambrose inquires about a drill, and before long we find ourselves at the local machine shop with half the village crowding around to watch the blond girl redrill her heelpiece.
Desperately in love with the indifferent Victoria (Sienna Miller), the prettiest and perhaps shallowest girl in their serene Victorian English village, Tristan strikes a bargain: If, as a birthday gift, he brings her the star that has just fallen, Victoria will be his bride.
In June last year they rescued two people, including a 13-year old girl kidnapped by the LRA from the village of Kidi, about 12km from the town of Yambio, close to the DR Congo border.
After learning of the marriage, the commission sent an investigator to the girl's home in Al-Hurath village in Jizan province, in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen.
"Pinki was a depressed, sad, lonely, shy, young little girl, growing up on the periphery of the society in a little village, " said Satish Kalra, director of Smile Train's South Asian region, after meeting with Pinki.
Residents of a remote village in India's Rajasthan state are celebrating the return of a seven-year-old girl who had accidently strayed into Pakistan.
The United Nations, the World Bank and any organization you can think of say that an educated girl is a girl who can get a job, become a breadwinner and raise herself, her family, her village, her community and eventually her whole country.
The same weekend the man in Baltimore was attacked, in Chicago 10 people were killed and 40 were wounded, including a 6-year-old girl who was shot dead while she was playing on the front porch of her home in the Little Village neighborhood.
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