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Maya, a 16-year-old girl from Dolakha district in Nepal, is already a mother and a wife. Nepal has the second-highest adolescent pregnancy rate in South Asia, and it is estimated that one in ten girls there will marry below the age of 15.
But Maya has been helped to go back to class, and attends an Adolescent Friendly Space for girls aged 12-18. Of the 22 girls in Maya’s group, half are married; some are pregnant, while others are mothers already.
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