My story comes from Bolahun, Liberia days, when I was needed to teach a 9th grade class. The class was mostly boys, who teased the few girls every time they tried to get a word into the class discussion. I worked on that from the start, but it had been the way of the culture. The boys were smart, mischievous, and ebullient. In American English, the students would have been called “bright”, […]
I’ll tell You My Story—Ending Period Poverty in Liberia By Nancy Hopkins Keep Girls in School In Liberia, several generations have now had their education disrupted by twelve years of civil war, Ebola and COVID. Poverty is widespread. When one high school principal realized that girls were falling behind because they skipped school when they lacked sanitary pads, or went home with stained skirts, she did something about it. She turned the […]