{"id":4043,"date":"2019-07-25T10:48:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T07:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4043"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:26","slug":"stopping-child-marriage-with-solar-lanterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/25\/stopping-child-marriage-with-solar-lanterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Stopping Child Marriage With Solar Lanterns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BBC World Service<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s estimated that more than 100\nmillion girls under the age of 18 will be married in the next decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in Ethiopia, a scheme involving solar lamps is helping thousands of girls stay in school longer and avoid marriage until they are adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more on<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A film by Ruth Evans, Lily\nFreeston and Hadra Ahmed for&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p04d42vf\"><strong>People Fixing the World<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BBC World Service It\u2019s estimated that more than 100 million girls under the age of 18 will be married in the next decade. But in Ethiopia, a scheme involving&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}