How is the pandemic impacting girls' education around the world?
Audio 48:30
Schoolgirls in Port au Prince, Haiti REUTERS / Andres Martinez Casares
By: Emmanuelle Bastide
59 mins
On the occasion of International Women's Rights Day
Publicity
More than 11 million girls around the world are threatened with not going back to school after the COVID-19 crisis (Unesco), they are mostly missed in Africa.
Out of school, some were forced into marriage or were victims of sexual abuse.
Will the pandemic wipe out years of effort towards equality between girls and boys?
What political choices to protect girls' education?
With:
Serigne Mbaye Thiam
, Minister of Water and Sanitation and former Minister of National Education of Senegal, Vice-President of
the Global Partnership for Education (GPE)
Yvan Savi
, Director General of the
NGO Plan International
Armel Azihar Sly-Vania
, Comorian activist,
NGO Imara Comoros
, NGO which works in particular on girls' education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Find the testimony of
Sharon Mukwawaya.
This young student in botanical sciences at the Faculty of Sciences of Lomé is fiercely committed to the education of girls in Togo.
In 2018, she was appointed UNDP Resident Representative in Togo thanks to
Plan International's
Girls in Command
program
.
The following year, she also co-founded the association
ProEducation Togo
, to encourage girls to continue their studies and encourage them to embark on scientific fields.
Raphaelle Constant
met her in Lomé
--- BoB Sharon Mukwawaya - Girls education activist Togo (Cut-6'01)
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