World Stories: Teenage Mums

First broadcast July 2007

BBC World Service journalists come from every corner of the world. Balanced news reporting is their job - covering the news minute-by-minute is what drives them most of them time.

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These world stories offer extraordinary insight across cultures. These are the stories our journalists have always wanted to tell.

Programme Seven: Teenage Mums

Edwige Sorgho was born and raised in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, West Africa.

In Ouagadougou many teenage girls become mothers, but having a child so young brings shame upon the girls' families.

When Edwige came to London three years ago, she was stunned to find that there were teenage girls having children, leaving school to be single mothers.

"This happens often at home...how could it be happening in a country with so much education, so much access to sexual health advice and so many rights for women?", says Edwige.

These realisations led Edwige to make this special programme for BBC World Service, exploring the experiences of teenage mothers on two different continents.

Teenagers are having the same experiences in Ouagadougou and London, but who is better off, and how can you judge?

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