Liberia: Harbel College Using Football to Lure Girls to College Education

Harbel — Lucy Kikeh, 15, is shy when a stranger attempts swaying her into a conversation and would hardly express herself, but she expresses herself better with a football at her feet.

She has gained fame by dribbling her opponents and scoring some brilliant goals from the wings with her left foot. For two years she played for an all-girls soccer squad in Monrovia.

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