Kenya school gives second chance to teen mums forced out of classes

Josephine Wanjiru, 19, studies inside a classroom at the Serene Haven secondary school, accommodating pregnant girls and teenage mothers with their babies in Nyeri, Kenya January 20, 2021. REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi

NYERI, Kenya (Reuters) - The sounds of baby coos and teenage giggles punctuate the lessons at Serene Haven Secondary, a school nestled into a hill below cloud-ringed Mount Kenya.

Here, 17 teenage mothers and pregnant girls - many of whom were forced out of their local schools - are getting a second chance to finish their education.