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Pregnancies galore at Mchinji school
Sopa Community Day Secondary School (CDSS) in Mchinji has registered 111 pregnancies over a period of three years, a development which has contributed to a high dropout rate of girls from the institution, The Nation can reveal.
The majority of the girls who fell pregnant are those in self-boarding facilities that could not manage to commute an average of 25 kilometres (km) between the school and their respective homes everyday.
The school’s head teacher, Jonathan Magombo, confirmed the development, saying the learners’ behaviour after school hours is beyond the school’s control. Jacob Nankhonya narrates.