Making it possible for young girls to attend secondary school has many lasting effects. Our focus in the child sponsorship programme is on girls due to their fragile position. If girls are not going to school when they enter puberty they are likely to become pregnant at an early age. In the slums sexual abuse is a known problem, and the girl will be in a vulnerable position if she spends most of her time there. This video gives a good summary of this situation.
When a girl goes to secondary school, which in Kenya are mostly boarding schools, she is taken from this environment and has a chance to develop herself and make her own decisions. The age at which she gets sexually active is delayed. This will lead to less teenage mothers, a smaller family size, less risk of sexually transmitted diseases and more empowered girls, for the rest of their lives.
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