A Kenyan woman named Ogallo Moline is 27 years old, but she vowed to have a grandchild at a young age after giving birth at the age of 13 to her daughter before she was 15.
Ogallo gave birth to her first child at the age of 13, which made her drop out of school and find a husband. After getting married, she gave birth to two more children including a son and a daughter.
His two daughters became the children of the Kinyarwanda legend that says the calf is white, and they gave birth when they were teenagers.
He said, “My daughter gave birth when she was 14 years old, and now she is married to another man, and the child she gave birth to when she was a teenager was left to raise.”
While this mother was 32 years old, her third-born daughter also gave birth to another grandchild. Ogallo is now 33 years old and has two grandchildren.
This mother, who is now a widow, told the Nation newspaper that the men who impregnated her daughters never knew, and even when asked, they did not want to talk about it.
He said that he wishes his grandson to have a good future, learning but he needs someone to help him.
This story is related to Atieno who gave birth at the age of 15, the daughter gave birth to her grandson at the age of 13. She became a grandmother at the age of 28.
He said, “I’m sorry that what happened to me is what happened to my daughter. I had a lot of confidence in him and that’s why I took him to school.”
This mother believes that poverty is at the root of the problem.
Atieno remembers that she got pregnant the first time she had sex and it was caused by a fellow student.
He left school and married the woman who got him pregnant, while his brothers continued their studies.
The Homa Bay area where these parents come from has become home to teenage girls, and the Kenya National Council for Population and Development confirmed that 31% of teenagers there get pregnant at a young age.
