Kachindamoto is a Senior Chief, a title known asInkosi.
This gives her authority over 900,000 people in the Dedza District in central Malawi.
But she never expected to become a leader.
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And so, she became Malawi’s first female chief.
Her concern about child marriage in Malawi came from hearing a heartbreaking story.
She told me would turn 12 years old in a month.
That day was an enlightenment, and I decided that couldn’t happen anymore.
And so, Kachindamoto gathered the council of chiefs from different communities.
She told them that from that moment on, child marriages were prohibited under their jurisdiction.
It wasn’t an empty threat.
Im chief until I die, she toldAl Jazeera.
After all, she knows this is what ensures girls a better future.
She concludes, If they are educated, they can be and have whatever they want.
