00:01Ali Motu left school as a teenager.
00:04Like many others, she dropped out because of healing marriage, poverty,
00:09or the belief that education wasn't meant for women.
00:17I've always loved education since I was young.
00:21My dad didn't really value Western education as much as Islamic studies.
00:26When I asked my mom to enroll me, she did, and he didn't object.
00:34I finished primary school, but in JSS2, I got married.
00:39I got married.
00:42Decades later, with just 5,000 newa, about $3 per time,
00:51Ali Motu is back in class, surrounded by women with similar stories.
00:57My first son would bring home assignments, and I had to take him to a neighbor for help.
01:06Sometimes she was busy or away.
01:09It became a burden, so I decided to learn myself.
01:13When 39-year-old Justina Jacob told her family she wanted to return to school,
01:23they thought she would give up until she walked into the Women's Centre for Continued Education and enrolled.
01:30If I see some of my friends, maybe reading or writing,
01:35like somebody would be talking, they would be jotting, all those things.
01:39I would be thinking that, ah, if I would be able to do the same.
01:45There would be a lot of things that, ah, my mom would be going back to school.
01:48Ah, mommy, what would you go and be learning?
01:51I said, ah, I want to learn. I want to be like new people.
01:54So, later on, they would be happy.
01:57Returning to school isn't easy.
02:00These women juggle classes with work and family.
02:03Some work miles to attend lessons.
02:06Others study between chores.
02:09But their determination never fits.
02:16They sacrifice a lot.
02:18Businesses, household duties to be here.
02:22We remind them to stay patient and focused,
02:25so they can learn before returning to their other responsibilities.
02:33After class, Alimatu works as a tailor to support a family.
02:37Education is slowly reshaping a future.
02:40I had a business before enrolling. School didn't stop it completely.
02:52We close at 2pm, then I rest before attending Islamic school.
02:57After that, I sew clothes or made bags to sell.
03:01Alimatu dreams of finishing school.
03:13Growing a business and ensuring that daughters never have to choose between learning and survival.
03:18Since they were to follow them at home, there was something in the past.
03:19The needs of work has come to focus on the history of the
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