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Tanaka said the year old man who impregnated her promised to marry her as soon as she turns 18 — the youngest allowed in Zimbabwean law. The clinic also offers contraceptives. But travel restrictions shut out many young people from such facilities, cutting off access to not only contraceptives but to counseling. Clinic workers say many young people need such services because of conservative parents who equate contraceptives with prostitution.

Proposals to supply contraceptives in school have been met with outrage in this conservative and deeply religious country. For Virginia, the travel restrictions meant she was stuck at home in Murehwa after visiting her parents from her city school last year. She enrolled instead at a local school, but spent little time there because of intermittent closures. At first, Virginia's parents — who try to support the family by sorting market items for sale and getting their drought-damaged land ready for growing again — wanted to pursue a statutory rape case against the older man who impregnated her.

But they gave up when he was released on bail and said they now hope he'll take care of the baby. Virginia's father ignored advice from neighbors to make his daughter leave home. Her mother wanted to protect her, and that included keeping her out of school and away from harassment. Virginia vows to return to school someday, though. She misses her classes, her peers.

She wants to graduate and be accepted to a university, so she can get a degree and repay her parents' faith in her by building them a bigger home. They may laugh at me now, but I am dedicating all my spare time and weekends to reading and catching up. We'll notify you here with news about. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest?

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