Minister Bibeau’s Sierra Leone visit highlights need to invest in quality education

The challenge is great in a country devastated by a decade of civil war and an Ebola outbreak in 2014.

International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, right, and CODE executive director Scott Walter, speak to teachers and school officials from Dr. S.M. Broderick Primary School in Freetown, Sierra Leone on Aug. 14. Photograph courtesy of CODE/Stephen Douglas

Opinion

BY SCOTT WALTER

September 11, 2018

This past Saturday, Sept. 8, International Literacy Day was celebrated around the world with the theme ‘literacy and skills development,’ reminding us all that literacy is a fundamental human right essential for human capital development and the creation of equitable and sustainable societies. I...

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