Dar es Salaam, Oct. 20 -- A school uniform can be replaced. An exercise book can be bought. Even a long journey to school can sometimes be solved with a bicycle.

But when a child has already dropped out, returning to the classroom can require much more than a school bag and a new pair of shoes.

It can require someone to look for her, listen to her story, remove the barriers that drove her away and, most importantly, convince her that her education is not over.

For girls and other vulnerable young people in Kilosa and Manyoni districts, that second chance is increasingly becoming a reality through the Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED), whose interventions are helping students who have dropped out return to education and rebuild int...