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Shocking statistics of teenage pregnancies

Lydia, who sat her KCPE exam in March, delivered a few weeks before the tests. [Tony Mburugu, Standard]

Fifteen-year-old Lydia seems lost and distraught. She cuts a lonely figure, and even though she does not say it, it is clear she wishes she could turn back the hands of time.

It takes encouragement from Rael Kairithia, a Gender-Based Violence (GBV) champion, and the prodding of her 75-year-old grandmother for the teenage mother to open up.

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