A school in Sierra Leone has defied the country’s ban on allowing pregnant girls from attending school amidst growing pressure against the laws.
The West African country banned pregnant schoolgirls from attending classes in 2015, when the number of teenage pregnancies rose during a massive Ebola outbreak, largely due to an increase in cases of rape.
The school’s principal, Eric Conteh, risks being fired for defying the law, but says ‘there is no reason a child should be denied her basic human rights just because she is pregnant.’