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Use of art proves vital in curbing teen pregnancies

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Youths from Bungoma using 'Art' as an advocacy tool against sexual gender-based violence. [Juliet Omelo, Standard]

Violet Nasambu* was left under her father's care when she was 12. Instead of the care a father would give to a daughter, the man turned into a beast. He started defiling her and threatening her with death if she ever told anyone of her ordeal.

Today, she is among young girls struggling with pregnancies after defilement. Aged just 14, she does not know where she will take her child once she gives birth.

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