Beyond statistics: My story of struggle against teen pregnancy

Beyond statistics: My story of struggle against teen pregnancy

In Colombia, one young woman vowed to break the cycle of teen pregnancy in her familyOriginally published on Global VoicesIllustration by Global Voices. By Yuri, a member of the Mi Historia journalism project. I was walking through the most worn and lonely streets of Villavicencio, the capital of Meta, a department in the centre of Colombia where the Andean, Orinoco and Amazonian ecosystems converge. It had rained all morning, and the thick clou…