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Can teaching Kenyan girls to save money also save them from HIV?

Ellen Rolfes

December 01, 2014 |

PBS NewsHour |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Kenya, Kibera, Nairobi Area

For adolescent girls in Kenya, poverty increases the likelihood of sexual exploitation. The Safe and Smart Savings program at Zelyn Academy creates a “safe space," where girls can talk about two seemingly disparate — and often taboo — topics: smart savings and reproductive and sexual health, and help break the cycles of poverty and HIV/AIDS.

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