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Teen mums are between ‘Narok and a hard place’

Narok leads in the country in teenage pregnancies at 40 per cent, according to the 2014 Demographic Health Survey. [Courtesy]

A lot of households in Trans-Mara East, Narok County, have either a pregnant teen or underage mother. Healthcare workers and activists are now rooting for contraceptive use after sensitisation campaigns failed.

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