In South Sudan, fifty-two percent of girls under the age of eighteen are married. High poverty rates and limited economic opportunities drives their families into a race “to sell off” their daughters as young as twelve years old to men 30 – 40 years their senior, in exchange for sizable bride-prices or dowries, ranging in value from 10,000 – 50,000 USD. Once married, South Sudanese girls drop out of school (only one percent of girls are enrolled in secondary school in S. Sudan), and are at a higher risk of maternal mortality (S. Sudan has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world), and experience high levels of domestic abuse.