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We target teen mums
Between the age of 13 to 19 years despite their social, economic and religious affiliations from rural and peri-urban areas.
Medical Camp
Teen Meetups
Mentorship Programs
Rescue Center Visits
Back Story
Having been the fourth born in a family of nine children, my mother gave birth to me when she was only 22 years old. It was evident that my older siblings were born during her teenage years-1st born at 14. As a teenage mother, she faced the challenges imposed by cultural practices that marginalized girls in terms of education. This led her to have more children, as her father’s focus was solely on educating her brothers. Her early motherhood became an additional hurdle, hindering her from pursuing her education. It seemed like an insurmountable barrier, leaving her
dreams of returning to school unattainable.
Despite the hardships, my mother courageously navigated through life, enduring multiple marriages in search of solace and economic stability. She single-handedly raised and educated her children, never losing hope. Finally, at the age of 51, she made the remarkable decision to go back to school and enrolled in Form 2. Against all odds, she sat for her KCSE exams in 2017 at
the age of 53.
The challenges stemming from my mother’s experience as a teen mom, the inability to complete her education, and the lack of early empowerment for better employment opportunities exposed us to a life of difficulty. It is this drive to ensure that I pursue higher education and create a better life for myself that has inspired me to initiate this program. Its purpose is to provide support and assistance to teenage mothers, empowering them to improve their lives and create brighter futures.
Why teen mums?
Every dream of a teenager is to explore, discover and adventure to feed into their curiosity anchored on their physical, social and emotional changes. However, teen mums are robbed of the opportunity to experience teenagehood through unplanned early parenting. Dropping out of school, rejection by parents and stigma by society is the linear and obvious path mapped out for them. It is an already predetermined doom towards failure of life and deemed stars and destinies. This leaves teen moms in a state of hopelessness and despair with limited or no support.
Given African culture and Kenya, the attention of institutions in these contexts is focused on teenagers’ mainstream welfare; education (academic excellence), basic needs (housing, food and shelter) lifeskills (abstinence, peer pressure) and management of physical development with little focus or anticipation on key steps incase of the eventuality of getting pregnant.
Motherhood comes with a series of responsibilities and needs whereby lack of provision disorients a teen mum. These needs include and are not limited to; Basic needs (toiletries, food, shelter and education), psychosocial support and medical interventions.
According to kenya-national-council-population-and-development Teenage pregnancy and motherhood situation in Kenya research by
Kenya-National-Council-Population-and-Development and UNESCO. The teenage pregnancy and motherhood rate in Kenya stands at 18%. This implies that about 1 in every 5 teenage girls between the ages of 15-19 years, have either had a live birth or are pregnant with their first child. The rate increases rapidly with age from 3% among girls aged 15, to 40% among girls aged 19. Global Citizen estimates that more than 152,000 teenage girls in Kenya became pregnant between March and May 2020 due to economic hardship during the country’s nationwide COVID lockdown.1 According to Glory Ngatha Muturi, “Teenage Pregnancy in Kenya: Gloom and Doom in Education, Health, 2020”. Roughly 13,000 young girls drop out of school each year to have children, the National Council for Population and Development reports.2
Our Focus
We target teen moms between the age of 13 to 19 years despite their social, economic and religious affiliations from rural and peri-urban areas.
Our Goal
Our primary objective is to make a positive impact on the lives of 5-15 teenage mothers in 2023 and increase that number to fifty by 2025. Our ultimate aim is to ensure a complete transition to empowered teenagers, providing them with the necessary support and resources to thrive. To bridge the gap between successful teen mums and non-teen mums. This will be achieved through;
This is anchored on Kenya’s Ministry of Education “return-to-school” or school re-entry policy for Girls after Teenage Pregnancy as early as 1994. The policy was established to guarantee that teen mothers could re-enroll and complete their studies free of stigma.
Our solution
Nap a Baby Initiative by Jashal Medicare comes in to fill in the gap and offer support for teenagers through periodic provision of diapers, baby and mother wares, baby accessories, well being talks in mental health using a variety of initiatives; Medical Camp, partnerships and collaborations, visits to rescue centers or orphanages, Teen meetups, mentorship programs.
Our support system
We collaborate with volunteer counselors, psychologists, nutritionists, educators and medical doctors to work together, sharing responsibilities, ideas, efforts, their skills, and time to support this cause.
How to plug in
Your support means the world to us! You are like a precious gem, bringing positive change to the lives of teen moms. Because of you, their lives become more meaningful and worth living. Thank you for making a difference!
Be sure that when you support in kind or cash to Nap a baby initiative, your gift is spent where there is a pressing need. It could go towards purchase of diapers, napkins, and a new mum essential kit, including medication. 100% of the donations is spent on our programmes. We tirelessly work round the clock to ensure that your donations are spent on supporting the teen mums rather than.