Leveraging the Power of Women’s Solidarity

“The Mothers’ Club was aware of my situation, so when CAUSE Canada wanted to know if girls in the community were out of school, the Mothers’ Club told them that I was one of them,” said Mariama.

When Mariama was 14 years old, her mother died, and she had to drop out of school. Mariama laboured on a farm to help grow peanuts, a staple food in Sierra Leone. “There was no one to support my education.”

There soon was, though—the community Mothers’ Club. When CAUSE Canada began working with the Mothers’ Club to help them identify and support girls to go back to and stay in school, Mariama was quickly identified as someone the Mothers’ Club could help...

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