Post by Fit For Future Kenya

Education is not only a right. It is a lifeline. In 2024, our journey with these Teen mothers begun when we decided to give them a second chance in life. Currently, they are in their final year. Their lifeline had been interrupted by teen Pregnancies. What Joëlle Chassot calls the #InterruptedGirl. A recent survey conducted by UNICEF Kenya found out that pregnancy is one of the key reasons for girls being out of school. This affects their long term educational, economic and health outcomes. Teen motherhood comes with challenges. In school, they face discrimination based on their academic and sporting abilities. There is a lot of stigmatization that is attached to and viewed as an apparent lack of chastity. There is a lot of low parental involvement in the readmission process too. Families are really constrained financially. Teen mothers from poor and low income households are less likely to return to school. #InterruptedGirlCampaigns Felix Bucher Ahmed Bilal Cosima von Seefried Rebecca Teclemariam-Mesbah, PhD Sascha Moeri Careen Calvin Mollel Burak Büyüksaraç Jeroen Ehlen Laura Kalmenova Joëlle Chassot Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevoelkerung (DSW) Lisa Goerlitz African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) Pilar Molina Rossella Pernía Henriette Geiger.