This innocent Ten years old, Gladys Chelagat holds her baby weighing 2.8kg at Kericho District Hospital in Kenya. The former pupil of Chemamul Primary School gave birth through C-section.
I wish i could lay my hands on the man that impregnated this young beautiful innocent kid, castrate and send him to jail for the rest of his life. *SMH* 9 Months!!! Just imagine the pain this young fellow would have gone through, well, thank God she made it.
Below
is also an excerpt from the 2004 Save The Children Report focusing on Child
Mothers:.
More
than 1 million infants – and an estimated 70,000 adolescent mothers – die each
year in the developing world because young girls are marrying and having
children before they are physically ready for parenthood, according to the
report released today.The report’s Early Motherhood Risk Ranking identifies 50
countries where motherhood is most devastating for young girls and their
babies. Nine of the ten highest-risk countries are in sub-Saharan Africa.
Niger, Liberia and Mali top the list. Other countries with high-risk scores
outside of Africa include Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Guatemala, Haiti, Nepal,
Nicaragua and Yemen.In the ten highest risk countries, according to the report, more than 1 in 6 teenage girls aged 15 to 19 give birth each year and nearly 1 in 7 babies born to these teenagers die before age 1. The rankings are based on marriage and birth rates among teenage girls in each country as well as infant mortality rates for children born to teenage mothers.
You can access the entire 2004 Report by clicking on this link.
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