Pregnant women sing and dance before being assisted in a health unit where several women look for assistance with prenatal care in Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

A woman combs the hair of a girl as they watch a video clip on a portable DVD player in Komao village, on the outskirts of Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Marie walks with a friend on a street in Komao village, on the outskirts of Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. A man, in his mid-20s, first caught a glimpse of Marie as she ran with her friends past his house near the village primary school. Soon after, he proposed to the fifth-grader. “I’m going to school now. I don’t want to get married and stay in the house,” she told him. But the pressures of a global pandemic on this remote corner of Sierra Leone were greater than the wishes of a schoolgirl. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Isatu, 12, carries packets of rice flour to sell at Komao village, on the outskirts of Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. Sierra Leone closed its borders before the country had its first COVID-19 case. As a result, the country has seen only 2,434 confirmed cases and 74 deaths. Only 76 of those cases were confirmed in Kono district, but the economic toll here has brought many families already living on the edge to a breaking point. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Houses stand next to a diamond mining site in Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. Mining operations have slowed with the global economy. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Students walks in the fog as they arrive at a secondary school in Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Aiah Kemoh uses a sieve as he looks for diamonds in a mining site in Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. The 43-year-old miner went back to mining just after the coronavirus restriction measures were lifted. "It's been difficult", says Kemoh, who built his family house with the money he earned from the diamonds. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Osman works on his sewing machine as a sister of Marie stands with him in Komao village, on the outskirts of Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. "In the past months things were hard for me, even to have food to eat", says Marie's stepfather. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Students sing the national anthem before class at a secondary school in Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Youths play soccer during as the sun sets in Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

This Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020 photo shows homes along the dirt road of Kombayendeh village, in Lei chiefdom, district of Kono, Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone closed its borders before the country had its first COVID-19 case. As a result, the country has seen only 2,434 confirmed cases and 74 deaths. Only 76 of those cases were confirmed in Kono district, but the economic toll here has brought many families already living on the edge to a breaking point.  (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Kadiatu poses for a portrait in Lei chiefdom, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. The 15-year-old she says her widowed mother pushed her into marriage during the pandemic because of financial hardship and because the teenager's prospects for a husband already were considered limited as she had gotten pregnant once before at 12. She can’t be sure just how much money was offered as a bride price: She was crying too hard at the ceremony to see straight. “I was not ready to get married. I wanted to learn something first,” she says. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Marie poses for a portrait in Komao village outskirts of Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. The 16-year-old didn’t want to get married, but when her now-husband proposed, she and her family were struggling with the economic situation. For that reason she decided to get married. “Now we are together, so if he asks me to get pregnant, I will accept that”, she says. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

This Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020 photo shows homes in Komao village, on the outskirts of Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone closed its borders before the country had its first COVID-19 case. As a result, the country has seen only 2,434 confirmed cases and 74 deaths. Only 76 of those cases were confirmed in Kono district, but the economic toll here has brought many families already living on the edge to a breaking point. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Mariama is attended to in a health unit where several women look for assistance for their prenatal care in Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020. Mariama, who estimates her age at 17, had left her remote village near the border with Guinea to live with an aunt in Koidu and attend school. Then in April a 28-year-old man in their compound expressed interest in her. It took a month for Mariama to say yes over her aunt's threats to send her back to her village, where her father is struggling to feed two wives and 10 other children and her mother would be embarrassed by her return. If she has a daughter, one thing is certain, she says: “I will not give my child to anybody. I will take care of her.” (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

A baby sleeps at the entrance of his house in Komao village, on the outskirts of Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Chidren pose for a photo in Komao village, on the outskirts of Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Marie, center left, sits on a bench with a friend as they look towards a drone photographing them in Komao village outskirts of Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. The 16-year-old didn’t want to get married, but when her now-husband proposed, she and her family were struggling with the economic situation. For that reason she decided to get married. “Now we are together, so if he asks me to get pregnant, I will accept that”, she says. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

A boy walks past a stop sign in Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Monday, Nov. 23, 2020. Only 76 coronavirus cases were confirmed in Kono district, but the economic toll here has brought many families already living on the edge to a breaking point. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

A sign taped on a door indicates an antenatal clinic office in a health unit where several women look for assistance for their prenatal care in Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020. In Sierra Leone, the rate of marriage under 18 had dropped from 56% in 2006 to 39% in 2017 _ a major achievement in the eyes of child protection activists. Then COVID-19 hit, schools closed in March and child marriages accelerated as many village girls who had been attending classes in nearby towns returned home to their parents. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Mariama poses for a picture in Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020. Mariama, who estimates her age at 17, had left her remote village near the border with Guinea to live with an aunt in Koidu and attend school. Then in April a 28-year-old man in their compound expressed interest in her. It took a month for Mariama to say yes over her aunt's threats to send her back to her village, where her father is struggling to feed two wives and 10 other children and her mother would be embarrassed by her return. If she has a daughter, one thing is certain, she says: “I will not give my child to anybody. I will take care of her.” (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Naomi poses for a portrait at a tailoring classroom in the district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Monday, Nov. 23, 2020. "My family are farmers and don't have money to put me in the school, that's why they gave me on marriage", says the teenager, who ran away from her husband's house after realizing that he already had another wife. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Hawa Kassama prepares cassava with pepper for her family at Kombayendeh village, in Lei chiefdom, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. Sierra Leone closed its borders before the country had its first COVID-19 case. As a result, the country has seen only 2,434 confirmed cases and 74 deaths. Only 76 of those cases were confirmed in Kono district, but the economic toll here has brought many families already living on the edge to a breaking point. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

A girl watches a video clip on a portable DVD player in Komao village, outskirts of Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Primary students gather in line before they enter their classrooms at Kombayendeh village in Lei chiefdom, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. Early marriages were happening so often in this part of Sierra Leone that traditional leaders in the Lei chiefdom instituted a new bylaw imposing a 500,000 ($50) fine on anyone having sex with a minor, even if the man is married to the child. Yet local leaders in Kombayendeh can't recall a single fine being issued. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)