Student journalists at UIUC and Fourah Bay College team up to cover period poverty in Sierra Leone
A team of journalists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently traveled to Sierra Leone to report on the global phenomenon of period poverty. Women and girls around the world often lack access to
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