WHO’S TO BLAME?
Abortion is ILLEGAL in our country, yet young girls are still dying as a result of having unsafe abortions. It is so infuriating and disheartening when very young girls are making wrong decisions even at the point of their death!!! A 13 year old girl, four months pregnant died while being rushed to the hospital. […]
Camp Diary of a Shy Girl to a Confident Young Woman: Part 5
At fifteen, I wasn’t sure about what I wanted in life. In the last exam, I had managed to score a C. that was the best I could produce. I was comfortable. Besides, I wasn’t the last one in the class and I was smart. I had managed to score 334 marks out of 500 […]
WHO’S TO BLAME?
Abortion is ILLEGAL in our country, yet young girls are still dying as a result of having unsafe abortions. It is so infuriating and disheartening when very young girls are making wrong decisions even at the point of their death!!! A 13 year old girl from Mathare slum and four months pregnant died while being […]
Camp Diary of a Shy Girl to a Confident Young Woman: Part 4
All that she had learnt back then didn’t make a lot of sense. It was all about having fun and enjoying the travel, meeting her sisters once again and well, the change of environment was good for a disturbed soul like hers. That was her definition of camp, a rose garden where she could walk […]
Camp Diary of a Shy Girl to a Confident Young Woman: Part 3
The facilitator asked them how the exercise was. She smiled and looked at the rest of her sisters. Her hands were under the table fingers crossed praying that the facilitator won’t pick her to answer the question. Everyone in the room was looking in another direction. Nobody volunteered to answer. Besides, they all thought the […]