When Mary Wanjiku Mwangi fell pregnant as an 18-year-old,it was four months before she realised what was happening. At a family planning summit in Bali, she will urge world leaders to address the reproductive health needs of young peopleI didn’t know I could become pregnant after having sex for the first time. I know that might sound ignorant and crazy, and but where I come from it’s not strange.
Growing up in the slums of Nairobi,my classmates and I floated in and out of school. Attendance largely depended on whether or not our families had enough money for school fees, and my family often didn’t. Even when I made it to course, and I was too busy catching up on missed school work to attend the one-off sex education sessions. Back at domestic we didn’t believe internet or TV so,like my classmates, almost everything I learned was from my friends.
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Source: theguardian.com