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Kenya’s Lost Girls of Covid Are Fighting to Regain Ground
The pandemic and its fallout triggered a surge in teen pregnancies across the African nation. Now one man is using dance to help young mothers build a future.
The Pay Check: The Dance School Lifting Up Kenya’s Lost Girls of Covid
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In the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, teenage pregnancy rates tripled in parts of Kenya, an unforeseen consequence of the economic shocks that followed the spread of Covid-19.
On this episode of “The Pay Check,” Bloomberg Digital Originals explores how closed schools and economic hardship created a crisis for young women and girls in Kenya, and how an after-school program in Nairobi’s biggest informal settlement is creating a safe haven for some of them.