‘Still, I Rise’: How 28 Kenyan teenage mothers are reclaiming their futures Their stories expose how abuse, family breakdown, poverty and stigma can push girls out of school and into early motherhood. Gender 43 min ago

Binti Rashid Ali, 22, a mother of a four-year-old daughter and co-author of Still, I Rise, a collection of stories written by 28 young women who became teenage mothers in Nairobi’s informal settlements.

I chose to go back to school, not because it was easy, but because I refused to let what happened define my future,” said the emotional Jane during the launch of Still, I Rise book in Nairobi.

In the book, Still, I Rise, a collection of stories written by 28 young women who became mothers as teenagers in Nairobi’s informal settlements, she also shares the accounts of circumstances that led her here today.