Photo journal: Kenyan single mother

Ogichoya's mother, Nkarkar, says that when a girl in the Rendille community becomes pregnant outside of wedlock, a common predicament because of a lack of education or the girls have no control over sexual partners, she faces the terrifying prospect of a forced abortion.

When this happens, she is taken out into the woods by local women, who step on her belly until she miscarries.

"I didn't want Ogichoya to go through it as so many girls who do have lost their lives," she says.