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UNPLANNED PREGNANCY: Tribulations of a student mother

Nothing wrecks the carefree time, universally associated with college, more than an unplanned pregnancy. While pregnancies take two to tango, no one suffers the brunt of the pregnancy more than the mother who is often left to her own devices as society watches her ‘reap what she sowed’.

Winfred Abuya was a first year student at Maseno University when something that changed the rest of her stay in university happened. One of her friends who had a toddler in school came back to her room to find her child badly burnt. According to Abuya, her friend had locked the infant in a room she had rented outside the school to attend one of her classes but forgot to safely store away a pot containing boiling water.

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