‘They only knew how to fight’: school helps girls to heal after Boko Haram

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‘They only knew how to fight’: school helps girls to heal after Boko Haram

The militant group continues to abduct schoolchildren in north-eastern Nigeria, but one school is giving survivors hope of a better life through educationWhat 19-year-old Binta Usman remembers most vividly about her early days at the Lafiya Sarari girls’ school in Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria’s Borno state, are the frequent tears that made it hard for her to concentrate in class.“We’d all be sitting in class and all of us would just be cry…