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Rescuing Our African Daughters (ROAD) is a Canadian aid organization that was incorporated in 2005 and was granted charity status in 2007. The mandate of the Charity is to assist teenage girls who have fled their families or clans to avoid forced polygamous marriages.

History
Launched in 2005 by Denise Baillargeon, ROAD was inspired by Sister Delphine Nebie – a Catholic nun belonging to the indigenous Order of the Immaculate Conception in Burkina Faso – who came to Toronto to speak about the efforts of her Order to rescue teenage girls promised at birth by their fathers to much older men for these abusive marriages.

Burkina Faso
Since 2007, ROAD focuses most of its efforts on quality education for the girls. It therefore earmarked its funds to hire qualified teachers for St. Bernadette Center in Kongoussi where Plan International had built a school and a dormitory. There are currently more than 100 girls living at the Center and attending the school.