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It's the first day of the school year in Tanzania and thousands of students have been back in the classrooms. Among them, for the first time in years, are female students who had been exluded from government-run schools because they fell pregnant. Following a change in policies by President Suluhu Hassan's government they are now permited to return. Well in many countries around Africa the same fate befalls young women, but in Sierra Leone, one woman has been helping them. Peagie Foday is founder of the Peagie Woobay Scholarship Fund helping such girls go back to school. Now 50, she had her son when just 16. Galvanised by her own experience she now helps others. She's been talking to Bola Mosuro.

(Photo credit: Peagie Woobay Scholarship Fund)