Teen mothers carry their children inside a library (Photo: Reuters/Monicah Mwangi)
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.
In a normal year, stigma, logistics and money compel around 13,000 pregnant girls to drop out, government data shows. That is likely to spike this year.
Serene Haven secondary school founder Elizabeth Wanjiru talks to Josephine Wanjiru, 19 (Photo: Reuters/Monicah Mwangi)