Girls Speak Out

In 2016 Street Child launched an appeal to help the thousands of girls across Sierra Leone and Liberia who were not being given the chance to go to school. We spoke to over 2,000 girls to discuss the issues preventing them from going to school and what could be done to impact upon them. Our research showed that there were five key barriers to girls' education: poverty, teenage pregnancy, loss of a caregiver, parental attitudes to education and poor teaching quality. Through the efforts of our media partners we were able to carry our message far and wide to help create a better future for thousands of vulnerable girls. Thanks to a massive response from the UK public, we were able to ensure that the voices of the brave girls involved in our project were as loud as they could be and as a result, we'll help ensure more than 20,000 gain the opportunity go to school and stay there.