Classrooms are empty in Sierra Leone, but education hasn’t ground to a halt.
School has yet to resume after last year’s summer break in the West African country due to the rapid spread of Ebola throughout 2014. According to AFP, more than 1 million school-aged kids in Sierra Leone — one of the hardest-hit nations of the epidemic — have been out of class for several months.
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Students heading back to class next month won’t deem the radio education program irrelevant though. As Taulo told NPR, the program will continue as a complement to classroom instruction.
