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Teenage Mothers Reintegration Into Society initiative
Quality education for marginalized teenage mums
Taking back to school teenage mothers from poor backgrounds
Location
Bomani village, Kikambala, Kilifi County of Kenya
Date
March 2021 to December 2022
Role
Pilot project where we had a daycare/safe house for ten mums. We had 15 teen mums and their kids at the daycare/safe house.
We identify marginalized teenage mums from poor backgrounds between the ages of thirteen and nineteen years old, do counselling, guidance and mentorship and take them back to school depending on the level they stopped at. We had a day care/rescue centre at a village called Bomani in Kikambala, Kilifi where we took care of kids of teen mums so they could go to school freely though we have had to close it due to accrued rent arrears.
We need your help to get it back so that we may change the lives of these precious teen mums and young mums who get married off early and stop schooling. Our priority is to get the teen mums back to school or for those not ready or not willing to go back to school due to stigmatization, we help them do a course that will benefit them.
Teen mums face stigmatization and ostracization in the community and need a lot of psycho social support. We can impact many more if we get the right resources and change the narrative of teen pregnancy at the coastal region of Kenya. We hosted 15 teen mums and their kids at our day care/safe house and were able to encourage and take back to primary school 3 mums, to secondary school and for tertiary education. But we ran out of funds to sustain them and would appreciate your kind support to buy pampers, sanitary pads for the teen mums, school fees, food and clothing.
We also want to give them bikes to use to go to school and be able to go home quickly to feed their children. We did a pilot where a teen mum would use her bike to come to the day care/safehouse in Bomani to breastfeed her son then go home and later in the evening return to pick her son. She improved drastically in her education and was able to sit for her class exams and proceed to high school last year. Bikes will help marginalized girls who are at risk of being taken advantage of by 'boda boda' riders and men along the way to school to avoid such traps and a higher percentage will complete their education. Most schools are several kilometres away from home so girls are ta a high risk when walking to and from school.




























