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My confession: My father wanted to marry me off at 11 to a man older than him

Jane Nengoiisa during an interview with The Standard. [Saul Owiti, Standard]

“I woke up one morning, and my father told me that we were poor and needed money,” recalls Jane Nengoiisa, an 18-year-old girl in Kimana, Kajiado County.

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