Halimatu Hassan dropped out of school as a teenager after she got married. Now she is back in class, surrounded by women like her at a school in Sokoto, a town in northeast Nigeria.

Countless women who never had the chance at a full education are getting a second chance. The Women's Centre for Continuing Education in Sokoto is enrolling students, charging just 5,000 Naira (about $3.50) per term.