HEART CBO

🌸 Support a Teen Mum, Save a Generation 🌸

📍Meru County has recorded the highest number of teenage pregnancies in Kenya. From January to May 2025 alone, over 3,998 girls aged 10–19 walked into clinics not for exams, but for antenatal care. That’s 1 teenage girl in every 4 pregnant women.

🧨 What’s causing this?

1. Poverty and survival s*x
2. Absent parenting and broken homes
3. Peer pressure and exploitation
4. Cultural norms post-FGM
5. The influence of the miraa and boda boda economy
6. Lack of access to s*x education or contraception
7. Myth and misconceptions

These girls didn’t choose this path.

Many were betrayed by those meant to protect them.

And yet, society often turns its back on them, denying them education, dignity, and hope.

Greenland Secondary School for Teenage Mothers is a place where:

✅ Keeps Girls in School
Education is the strongest weapon to break the cycle of poverty, early motherhood, and dependence. Greenland gives girls a second chance.

✅ Restores Dignity
Many teenage mothers lack basics: clothes, pads, diapers, food. Your donation helps them walk with confidence and raise healthy babies.

✅ Promotes Mental Health and Healing
Greenland is a safe space where teen mothers are surrounded by others who understand their pain. It’s a place of healing, mentorship, and growth.

✅ Breaks the Cycle
Supporting one girl today prevents the next generation from repeating the same mistakes. When we lift a teen mum, we protect her child and change the future.

To become part of the change and hope the community we can

❣️Visit and encourage

❣️ Donate:

Clothes (for mums and babies)
Sanitary pads
Diapers
Foodstuffs

We can also support homes for the teanage mothers like the Refuge Oaks International

Special thanks to all HEART CBO members and well wishers who donated clothes that were well received by the girls at Greenland.

Saturday was a beautiful and powerful day.

We spent it at Greenland Girls Secondary School, a safe haven for teenage mothers. Between painting the school walls and donating food and clothes, we shared stories, laughter, and even hosted a heartwarming pageant that celebrated strength, beauty, and resilience.

It was more than just a visitit was a day of healing, for both body and soul.

Each girl we met carries a story. Many were once innocent, full of promise, and strong in their self-worth. But that was before someone often a man trusted to protect saw them not as children, but as objects of pleasure. The result? Deep wounds, stolen childhoods, and lives altered too soon.

Sadly, this is not an isolated case.

In Meru County alone, more than 3,500 cases of teenage pregnancy were reported in the past year, with hundreds more going unreported. Behind every statistic is a girl who now has to mother a child while still being a child herself.

To every parent sheltering a teenage mother at home:
Please, bring her to school.
At Greenland, we teach them to reclaim their worth, rebuild their confidence, and remember that life doesn’t end here; it begins again, stronger.

To our community and justice system:
We implore you; stand firmly against all forms of s*xual violence. Let’s protect our girls with urgency and consistency. And let’s not forget that boys, too, are vulnerable and must be protected.

No child deserves to be violated.
Every child deserves to feel safe, valued, and free to dream again.

Okay tell me how fighting for your rights got to infringing the rights of others.

What's the difference between you and the government that you are demonstrating against?

Are you not just a thief, a killer, a monster who hasn't gotten an opportunity to show us how you can break each and every bone of Kenya without any concerns?

Tell me you're after wrecking the economy of Meru,
1. Bei Saawa supermarket
2. Magunas supermarket
3. Selenite supermarket ....... Many others that dig deep into the heart of Meru.

Didn't you even try to destroy Meru Central?
A community that fights against its own economy is at the risk of breaking.
Let us stand against destruction.

Let us join together to birth a better Meru where brains go ahead of thirst for destruction.

Meru is better when we join together to fight destruction.