Africa Educates Her Campaign with Sofonie Dala. Day 2

Africa Educates Her campaign is going live in Angola 

Girls education is key to the development of Africa. COVID-19 is threatening decades of progress made to advance gender equality and girls education. 

 AUCIEFFA calls on Africa's youth, development partners, human rights defenders, and government ministries responsible for education to safeguard girl's right to education in light of the COVID-19 related school closures and ensure that they go back to school when schools reopen. We all can play a part, join the Africa Educates Her Campaign. 

Today we invited Madalena to share her challenges during this hard time. 

All the interviews are being conducted in Portuguese. 

Note: this is a collection of stories via video from girls in primary, secondary and tertiary level who have been affected by the lockdowns.

Key questions answered are:

What is your name?

What is your age?

Country?

What level of education are you in?

How has COVID-19 affected you as a student?

What are the challenges you are facing or have faced in your pursuit to continue learning during the school lock-down?

And what do you think educators, government and development players can do to ensure every girl goes back to school after the lock-down?