Millions of girls globally haven’t returned to classrooms after COVID-19 lockdowns. One country has the solution.


Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education, and chief innovation officer for the government of Sierra Leone.
Millions of girls globally haven’t returned to classrooms after COVID-19 lockdowns. One country has the solution.

In Sierra Leone, the Radio Teaching Programme is helping children access education during disease outbreaks and beyond.
![Hawanatu Kafula, whose community has been supported by Action Aid during the Ebola epidemic, poses for photographs in Gollu, Sierra Leone August 17, 2015 [Kate Holt]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/24317153305_1336abd0fb_o.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)