The science lab.In this area of Kenya on 12% of girls go to high school- partly because when money is tight boys' tuition is paid before girls', and partly because many girls are married young.
On average if a girl doesn't go to high school she will have her first child between 14-18 years old, if she goes to high school that first child will be born when she is 20-25 years old.
So important to keep girls in school!
You've probably heard the saying "to educate a boy is to educate one man, to educate a girl is to educate an entire community".
(The poem the girls composed for us is partially written up on the blackboard.)
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