Just $1 (Rs 47) a day that's the incentive being offered to young girls to keep them from getting pregnant. The group College-Bound Sisters was founded at the University of North Carolina by Hazel Brown, a maternity nurse who thought too many teens were having babies. <img alt="" src="/imagedata/2009/jun/teen.jpg" align="right" border="0" />Brown said she hopes the programme, which pays $1 each day to 12-to-18-year-old girls, will keep them from getting pregnant. u00a0 "Our three goals are that they avoid pregnancy, graduate from high school and enroll in college," Brown said. Under the programme, $7 (Rs 329) is deposited into an interest-bearing college fund that the girls can collect once they graduate high school. Some recent graduates earned more than $2,000 and are an inspiration to those still in the programme. "I might want to be a teacher for a few years and then be a lawyer," said 12-year-old Chelsey Davis. "I might want to be an actor or singer," another girl Amanda Davis added. Programme director Laurie Smith said nearly 100 per cent of the girls who finish the programme have gone on to graduate college.

Just $1 (Rs 47) a day that's the incentive being offered to young girls to keep them from getting pregnant.

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