Forgotten Girls of Dhaka

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Farhana Haider enters Dhaka, in Bangladesh to meet a group of teenage girls who were married and then abandoned by their husbands before they even reached the age of 16.

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0:00.0	Thanks for downloading this program from the BBC.
0:02.8	As part of the World Service Identity Season,
0:05.3	we explore the inner lives of people whose voices are rarely heard.
0:09.6	Forhana Haida presents the forgotten girls of Ducker.
0:14.0	I'm about to go and see Molica.
0:18.0	She's 13 years old and she's due to get married at the end of the week.
0:25.0	She's marrying an 18 year old boy who her mother tells me and her friends tell me
0:32.0	is her boyfriend I'm going to be able to make it?
0:44.0	Nah.
0:45.0	Nah.
0:46.0	What do you do do do you?
0:48.0	Yeah.
0:49.0	What do you do do you?
0:51.0	Can no,
0:50.0	can do it be going to be here? Cano, can't tell you but you go. Oh my gosh,
0:53.4	and dear,
0:55.1	hale hale,
0:56.2	me a mett de conchimme,
0:58.7	now baude conchumen, bauda chummina.
1:01.6	Bauda shambi, and bora shambi. So I asked for them, when they're older, so I'm going to be.
1:03.0	What I mean do you?
1:05.0	What are you?
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