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World in Progress: Back to school

Jana Genth/speaker: Charli Shield February 16, 2022

In Zimbabwe, the rate of child sexual abuse and the number of unwanted pregnancies among young girls has increased significantly following the introduction of strict COVID-19 curfews. Authorities are estimating thousands of unplanned pregnancies among schoolgirls. Often they weren't allowed to return to school to get an education. That has now changed!

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Charli Shield has this story by Jana Genth.