Video: Help for teenage girl victims of Mali conflict

Fresh fighting has broken out in Mali between government forces and rebel groups 国产视频� days after a ceasefire was agreed.

The country has been hit by conflict since 2012 国产视频� and the hidden victims include adolescent girls.

Their plight featured recently in a video from Plan West Africa. The film, called Crisis in the Sahel, is part of Plan International's Because I Am a Girl campaign, which aims to support millions to get the education, support and skills they need to transform their lives.

It shows how teenage girls are particularly vulnerable during disaster situations 国产视频� often the first victims and the last to get help afterwards..

The Malian city of Timbuktu was occupied for 10 months by armed militias last year. Mariam was 15 when she was forced to marry an insurgent.

In the video, she says: 国产视频淭hey said if I did not accept they will either kill me or my parents. I had no choice.国产视频�

Plan supports vocational training for victims, as well as providing educational activities for children in safe places.

Mariam now gets training and is looking forward to a brighter future.

The video also tells of the 5000 children 国产视频� 3000 of them girls 国产视频� at a refugee camp in neighbouring Niger.