6-million Young Moms In Africa Are Not In School. They Can Be
In sub-Saharan Africa more than 6-million pregnant and parenting girls are out of school and few go back after giving birth.
Research shows one of the best ways to help young moms build a life for them and their babies is to help them to finish secondary school.
But restrictive policies, stigma and discrimination, and financial hardships can derail their plans to carry on learning. Heres how this can be turned around.
In todaysnewsletter ,Linda Pretorius explains why young moms should stay in school. Sign up today .
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For the past five years, about 130 000 adolescent girls have given birth in South Africa each year it means one in every seven babies are born to teenagers.
This challenge crosses South Africas borders.
In East and Southern Africa, a quarter of young women give birth before theyre 18 , with the teen pregnancy rate in the region at 92 per 1 000 girls , twice the global average. Moreover, six in ten girls are not in school.