Liberia: Girls On Loose Ends - Pregnancy Stalling Education

Monrovia — In Monrovia's biggest slum community of West point, many girls might not attend school this year, though there has been a clamor for the government to reopen schools after the long break caused by the deadly Ebola epidemic. Siah Saah, 15, has never been to school before but said she wanted to go this year. She feels she has lost every opportunity of a bright future because of being so young and having a two-month-old baby.

In an interview with FrontPage Africa, Saah said she had lived with her uncle in Matadi since her mother sent her to the city from Lofa. She has said since her arrival she had not been able to enroll in school because her uncle has not sent her. Said Saah: "Each time I tell my uncle to put me in school, he will tell me, 'wait for the second semester' and when first semester comes, he will say wait second semester. That's how he left doing and he did not put me in school."

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