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Child to Child (CtC) is an international child rights agency located at the Institute of Education. In 2011, CtC began working in partnership with the Sierra Leonean non-governmental organization (NGO) The Pikin-To-Pikin Movement (PtP) to implement a five-year, community-based early childhood development project in the remote Eastern district of Sierra Leone. To respond to the Ebola crisis, CtC and PtP developed a new project called “Pikin to Pikin Tok” aimed at supporting children to continue learning by delivering early years, hygiene, and life skills educational content (co-created with children) through child-friendly radio broadcasts. This case study presents initial results of Pikin to Pikin Tok. Data was collected in December 2015, which means that it was early to document robust results but a good moment to explore how the project rapidly adjusted to the changing context and capture its results three months after inception.