“I’ve grown a few years in 26 days”: A teenager’s life during wartime
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“I’ve grown a few years in 26 days”: A teenager’s life during wartime
calendar_today01 April 2022
As a youth volunteer helping settle internally displaced persons in Lviv, Viktoria Kravets explains how to fill in residence registration forms. Photo courtesy of Viktoria Kravets
At 14, Dankay Kanu (right, with a mentor from the 2YoungLives NGO, which helps pregnant girls in Sierra Leone continue their education and find employment) got pregnant by an older man who refused to wear a condom then denied paternity. Though she quit school for a time, she has since returned while raising her now-two-year-old son, Ishmael, alone. "To be a mother at this age is not really easy," she said, "but that will enable me to become stronger." @ UNFPA/Michael Duff