I don’t know what my baby’s father does for a living

A young mother breastfeeds her baby. [Photo: Courtesy]

A group of teenage girls huddle in an overcrowded mud-walled single room in the sprawling Bondeni slum of Nakuru County. Two of them nurse fragile looking babies aged six and four months.

In the same room another girl, barely 16, is heavily pregnant. She looks confused. A damp smell dominates the cold room that hosts two beds — one rickety and one makeshift.