{"id":193458,"date":"2025-03-13T15:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T13:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-kadiatous-journey-from-forced-marriage-to-education\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T15:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T13:33:08","slug":"guinea-kadiatous-journey-from-forced-marriage-to-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-kadiatous-journey-from-forced-marriage-to-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinea: Kadiatou&#8217;s Journey From Forced Marriage to Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">STORY HIGHLIGHTS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kadiatou Barry, forced to marry at 15 and move abroad, escaped her husband and returned to school for a better future.<\/li>\n<li>With support from the Sahel Women&#8217;s Empowerment and Demographic Dividend Project (SWEDD), Kadiatou and 105,703 other girls in Guinea have continued their studies with food scholarships, school kits, and extra classes.<\/li>\n<li>SWEDD has significantly reduced dropout rates among girls in Guinea, achieving a retention rate of 99.66% in 2024, surpassing the forecast of 80%.<\/li>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503130015.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/guinea\/\">Guinea<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STORY HIGHLIGHTS Kadiatou Barry, forced to marry at 15 and move abroad, escaped her husband and returned to school for a better future. With support from the Sahel Women&#8217;s Empowerment and Demographic Dividend Project (SWEDD), Kadiatou and 105,703 other girls in Guinea have continued their studies with food scholarships, school kits, and extra classes. SWEDD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,1632,9512,4715,1124,7369,50852,9795,257,254],"class_list":["post-193458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-education","tag-forced","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-journey","tag-kadiatous","tag-marriage","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}