Kenya: The Lost Girls

The Pay Check

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Society & Culture, Business, Investing

4.4 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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An increase in teen pregnancies in Kenya is part of a shadow pandemic that ripped through developing nations during Covid, setting women’s progress back generations. In this episode of The Pay Check, journalist Jill Filipovic visits a dance school in Nairobi, Kenya that’s fighting to help girls manage their lives and re-enroll in school.

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0:59.7	That's Bloomberg.com slash SBS-S-Singapore. When Kekhenya and Taya was growing up in a Maasai community in rural Kenya, it was rare for girls like her to go to school beyond seventh grade.
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1:28.3	Growing up, there was like, like, it wasn't girls who'd go to school beyond primary school.
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1:35.6	My best friend got married when we're in sixth grade.
1:38.7	A lot of my other friends got married when they were in seventh grade.
1:42.7	And by the time we were in eighth grade, there was only two girls.
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