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Feb 291 min read
Standing with Malala
(Originally published in GPE - July 11, 2013) Malala Yousafazai is just one of millions of girls who have been denied their right to...
Feb 291 min read
Young People on the March for Education
(Originally published in The Huffington Post September 8, 2013) Today’s youth are more connected, more aware and more engaged than we...
Feb 291 min read
Malala's Power
(Originally published in The Huffington Post December 23, 2013) Thirteen years after world leaders committed to providing access to...
Feb 291 min read
Education Cannot Wait for the Children of Syria
(Originally published in The Huffington Post May 18, 2014) I grew up in a war that made me a refugee from my home in Sierra Leone, and...
Feb 291 min read
Learning from Bogotá: Initiating a Conversation on Global Citizenship
(Originally published in Brookings August 6, 2014) Excited and curious, we drove closer to the mountainous ranges of the landscape, not...
Feb 291 min read
How Boko Haram Loses
(Originally published in The Huffington Post August 15, 2014) Young people around the world are responding in a defiant manner:...
Feb 291 min read
It's Young Girls and Women on the Front Lines of the Ebola Crisis
(Originally published in The Huffington Post - October 31, 2014) As in most emergencies, girls in Sierra Leone serve as primary care...
Feb 281 min read
Ebola and Women: Chernor Bah on the Impact on Girls in Sierra Leone
(Originally published in eboladeeply.org November 6, 2014) Chernor Bah, a global youth advocate and education activist from Sierra Leone,...
Feb 281 min read
Ebola and the Lost Children of Sierra Leone
(Originally published in The New York Times- November 13, 2014) Arriving at Port Loko, one of the largest towns in the north of Sierra...
Feb 281 min read
The Folly of barring pregnant girls from school in Sierra Leone
(Originally published in Africaisacountry.com- April 15, 2015) One in three girls aged 15 to 19 in Sierra Leone has been pregnant or had...
Feb 281 min read
Girls' education is the global civil rights issue of our time
(Originally published in The Guardian - OCTOBER 11, 2015) Around the world girls are faced with far greater social, health and economic...
Feb 282 min read
Chernor Bah receives ‘The Voice of Courage Award’
Education campaigner and A World at School Global Youth Ambassador Chernor Bah has been awarded the Voice of Courage Award by the...
Feb 283 min read
Anger as pregnant girls are banned from returning to Sierra Leone schools after Ebola
Students in Sierra Leone will soon be returning to school after the Ebola crisis – but many girls have been told they will be barred for...
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