OU Development Management student breaks down barriers to girls in education

OU student, Bridget Nagomoro, spoke at a recent meeting of the Gulmakai Network of activists which supports a global campaign by Malala Yousafzai for girls’ rights to education.

Bridget is studying for the OU’s MSc in Development Management, and had a special opportunity to attend the conference in Oxford earlier this month, where Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai met education activists working to challenge the barriers that keep girls out of school. Bridget is the Founding Chair of Governors for Ibba Girls School in South Sudan, a school she built in her home village to give girls age ten from across the country the opportunity to learn, and is completing the OU's MSc in Development Management to develop the school further to offer educational opportunity to more young women.

The Gulmakai Network, Malala Fund’s new initiative, will support the work of education champions in developing countries to help speed up progress towards girls’ secondary education around the world.

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