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Photo by Stephanie Sinclair @stephsinclairpix // Fatmata, 15, sits with her nine-month-old son, Isa, in a small village outside of Kambia, Sierra Leone. Her friend Sia, 13, dropped out of school the previous year. Both girls now attend a Population Council empowerment program, created to help protect and educate at-risk girls.
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Sierra Leone’s ministry of education banned pregnant girls from attending school. The stated intent of the policy, which was formally implemented by the government in April 2015, is to prevent them from influencing their peers and to protect them from ridicule. For just over a year, there were several education centers throughout the country for school-age pregnant girls and mothers that was supported by UNICEF, along with Sierra Leone’s education ministry and others. However, in August 2016 the centers for pregnant girls closed; UNICEF says they were intended to be a “bridge” after the Ebola crisis shut down schools across the country for nine months. About 14,000 girls who were pregnant or were new mothers registered at the schools. #letgirlslearn #girlseducation #endchildmarriage #girls #women

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