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The teenage pregnancy and motherhood rate in Kenya stands at 18%1. This implies that about 1 in every 5 teenage girls between the ages of 15-19 years, have either had a live birth or are pregnant with their first child. The rate increases rapidly with age from 3%…

BENTER TEENAGE MOTHERS’ NEWSLETTER no. 001 In this issue of our newsletter, we would like to present to you the story of Sylivia Anyango, a second year student at Mayenje Secondary School in Busia Kenya. When we went to her school for our routine visit of our…

Empowerment of girls and women is critical for the socio-economic development of communities and nations because it enables this segment of the population to participatemore fully in decision making and economic development. Since the 1994 InternationalConference on…