Nigeria’s second-chance schools: women balancing study and survival

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In northern Nigeria, women are returning to school after years away, pursuing education that poverty and early marriage had forced them to abandon. These second-chance programs offer a pathway back, but students juggle competing demands: childcare responsibilities, household duties, and the constant financial strain of affording tuition and materials. The schools represent both opportunity and the stark reality that education remains a luxury many rural families cannot fully afford, even when programs exist to help reclaim it.