A caregiver’s effort to give rescued girls decent futureElizabeth Mokkonen, the founder of Cofad, at her rescue centre in Kisumu. Just like any other pupil in her class, she would occasionally drift to wonderland, fantasising how her future, long after school, would be. Yesterday, some of the teenage mothers recovering at the rescue centre in Kisumu appealed to well-wishers to help them change their lives. She has been at the rescue centre for almost a year now. A survey carried out between 2017 to 2018 indicates that 493 girls (aged 10-14) and 13,401 (aged 15-19) were pregnant.

Source: Standard Digital March 08, 2019 06:00 UTC