{"id":2024,"date":"2022-03-14T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionaid.ch\/?post_type=story&#038;p=2024"},"modified":"2026-03-04T17:01:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:01:45","slug":"ama","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/actionaid.ch\/en\/story\/ama\/","title":{"rendered":"Ama is free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TQO4L6YBxCI?rel=0%0D%0A\" width=\"750\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>At just 14 years old, Ama was kidnapped<\/strong> by two men on a motorcycle one evening<strong> on her way back from school.<\/strong>\u00a0 Arriving at the village of the kidnappers, she heard some children shouting: &#8220;<em>Hafali<\/em>, <em>Hafali<\/em>&#8220;, which means &#8220;<strong>new wife<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Not seeing her returning from school, Ama&#8217;s father got worried and turned to ActionAid to ask for help to find his daughter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thanks to the intervention of ActionAid today Ama is no longer afraid of becoming a child bride to older men. <\/strong>\u00a0She knows that she can count on the help of his family and ActionAid. &#8220;I am part of the girls&#8217; club in my village<strong>. Everybody calls us \u2018ActionAid girls\u2019 and they know not to mess with us!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is estimated that every day <strong>33 thousand girls are forced into child marriage<\/strong>. Often this phenomenon severely hurts the physical and psychological development of the child, who remains isolated from society and is forced to leave school and face pregnancies at high risk of mortality.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the work with our local partners, <strong>we work on a daily basis to intercept cases of possible early marriages and we act immediately so that the girls most at risk can continue to grow up free and safe.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"vidiemme-block cta-band  \" >\n  \n  <div class=\"container-xl\">\n    <div class=\"row\">\n      \n      <div class=\"col align-content-center\">\n            <div class=\"title mb-4\">Support more women like Ama<\/div>\n      \n            <div class=\"link\">\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/actionaid.ch\/en\/donation-forms\/fight_for_women_en\/\" target=\"\" class=\"btn btn-primary btn-lg btn-cta\">DONATE NOW<\/a>\n      <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"vidiemme-block basic-editor  \" >\n  \n  <div class=\"container-xl\">\n    <h6><em>Photocredits: Ruth McDowall\/ActionAid<\/em><\/h6>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2025,"template":"","story-topic":[],"class_list":["post-2024","story","type-story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ama is free - ActionAid<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ama shares how ActionAid stood by her community. 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