Keeping girls in school: barriers, breakthroughs, and what works

Girls leave school for many reasons: distance, early marriage pressure, missing toilets, or unpaid care work at home. Solutions must address more than textbooks.

Our education programmes combine after-school support, mother groups, and safe learning spaces. When families see daughters reading confidently, attitudes shift.

Breakthroughs look ordinary — a returned notebook, a completed term, a girl tutoring her sibling. Those moments compound into completed secondary education.