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From city slums, teen takes social justice campaign to the US

Natasha Wanjiru (center)

When 13-year-old slum girl Natasha Wanjiru boarded a flight to the US in August 2016, she was worried about her siblings and other children in Kabiria slums in Kawangware.

Wanjiru considered herself lucky to escape shackles of early marriage that befell other girls. Jane Wanjiru, her single mother, was finding it hard to pay her fees, and that of her four other siblings.

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