Helping Young Women to Stay in School in Sierra Leone

To help girls find alternatives to early marriage and pregnancy, United Nations Population Fund is helping to put guidance counsellors in nearly 200 junior secondary schools.

Fatmata Sesay re-enrolled in school after becoming pregnant at age 15.

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