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Increasing number of schoolgirls are becoming mothers, thus ending prospects of their education Kizito Makoye   | 13.12.2020 DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania As rain drizzles, Teddy Meshack,18, is lazily lying on a mat in a shack in Tanzania’s Mbarika village, breastfeeding her baby. She is trying to protect the baby from cold, as the leaky roof gives way to rainwater, which is filling the floor.  Two years ago, Meshack was expelled from school, after she became pregnant. She was also forcibly married to a man 35 years older than her. “I got pregnant by accident. But my father saw that as an excuse to marry me off,” she said.

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