What problem are we trying to solve?
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Teenage pregnancy crisis is a global occurance with far reaching health implications, widespread social and economic ramifiactions
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Factors driving teenage pregnancy crisis are complex and interconnected.
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Child marriage is linked to teenage pregnancy and is closely associated with lower educational attainment, intimate partner violence, maternal and child mortality, increased rates of sexually transmitted infections, intergeneration poverty and the disempowerment of married girls.
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Child sexual abuse has significant impact on the health and well being of children and place girls at increased risk of pregnancy
Why is it important to address the problem?
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Global Trends
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As of 2019, adolescents aged 15-19 years in low and middle income countries had an estimated 21 million pregnancies each year
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Which resulted in an estimated 12 million births
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With 55% of unintended pregnancies ending in abortions
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Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) recoreded the largest number of estimated virths to 15-19 year olds in 2021 (6,114,000) compared to Central Asia which had 68,000
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The corresponding number was 332,000 among adolescents aged 10-14 years in SSA compared to 22,000 in South East Asia (SEA) in the same year
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Kenyan Trend
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Data from the Kenya Health Information Systems shows that a total of 110,821 pregnancies were recorded among adolescents aged between ages of 10 to 19 years between the months of January to May in 2023
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Further interrogation of the data reveals that a total of 6,110 were among adolescents agaed between 10 to 14 years while another 104, 711 were between the ages of 15 to 19 years
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The pregnancy numbers recorded in the first five months of 2023 is almost half of what was recorded in 2022 which stood at 260,734
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In 2021 there were 316,187 teenaged pregnancies that were recorded compasred to 331,549 in 2020
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How is Rehema addressing the problem?
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RRCF seeks to rescue girls, empower women and redeem generations in Jesus' name!
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RRCF offers a safe environment for healing and holistic development of teenage girls in pregnancy crisis
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Capacity strenghtening aimed at equipping the teenage mothers with practical skills and knowledge for self reliance
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Amplifying voice, sensitizing the community on safeguarding and protection
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Challenging retrogressive clutural practices, power dyanmaics, mental models, norms and narratives that stigmatizes and discriminate against teenagers in pregnancy crisis.