{"id":7883,"date":"2022-06-06T05:08:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T05:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7883"},"modified":"2022-06-06T05:08:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T05:08:58","slug":"outbreak-of-teenage-pregnancies-in-athwana-village-meru-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7883","title":{"rendered":"Outbreak of teenage pregnancies in Athwana Village &#8211; Meru County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ATHWANA residents now want the many church \u2018keshas\u2019 in the area stopped, citing an outbreak of teenage pregnancies in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vigils at Neema Cornerstone Church in Limoro village are said to have turned into a \u2018defilement\u2019 trap where teenagers end up pregnant, consequently dropping out of school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The residents argue that the endless night vigils have not only caused teen pregnancies but also absenteeism and a decline in performance among learners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_20220606_075718_128-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_20220606_075718_128-1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_20220606_075718_128-1-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 720px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHWANA residents now want the many church \u2018keshas\u2019 in the area stopped, citing an outbreak of teenage pregnancies in the area. The vigils at Neema Cornerstone Church in Limoro village are said to have turned into a \u2018defilement\u2019 trap where teenagers end up pregnant, consequently dropping out of school. The residents argue that the endless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_20220606_075718_128.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7886,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883\/revisions\/7886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}