Malawi: Teachers and Mothers Join Forces to Keep Girls in School in Malawi

Lilongwe — Isaac Zatha, the headmaster of Chapita Primary School in the Malawian district of Salima, spent years watching his girl students disappear from class when they were married off or became pregnant. "Every month, I would receive a report of a girl dropping out and by the end of the term, the numbers were significant," he recounted.

Boys also dropped out, but the trend was much more worrying for girls. In the 2013-2014 school year, four girls became pregnant and left. The next year, five more girls dropped out. The year after that, another four.

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