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The chief and teacher keeping Samburu teenage mothers in school

Getting the girls back to school: John Lemuna, the headmaster at Logorate Primary School. [Standard]

As a young girl, a Samburu girl whom we shall call Asha in order to spare her from stigma, dreamt of becoming a nurse so she could help mothers and children in her community.

At 14, just as she was beginning to prepare for the National Primary School Certificate Examinations (K.C.S.E), Asha discovered she was pregnant.

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