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  A Community Health Worker (CHW) returns to Primary School at 22

  She looks youthful in her neatly dressed school outfit, but she is 22 and already a mother of three. Marisa Lenaitorono, a Community Health Worker (CHW) is in class three at Nkopeliani Primary School in Samburu County. The young woman was 14 when she dropped out of school. “I was forced to undergo Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and then married off to a man the age of my father,” she narrates. “Not because I was in love with the man, but because of my tradition dictated so. I had no voice to say no,” she continues. Faced with hard reality of motherhood at a tender age,

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