Children, Parents sensitized on how to prevent Teenage Pregnancy

Adolescent girls have been advised to stay away from activities that have the tendency of making them victims of teenage pregnancy.

The advice was given by Madam Millicent Ocloo, the programs Officer of Purim African Youth Development Platform (PAYDP), an implementing partner of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) at a program organized at Amoma in the Kintampo South District of the Bono East Region.

The schedule is to educate both parents and children on the bad effects of teenage pregnancies, the rights of women in Ghana as well how to deal with gender-based violence such as rape, defilement, and assault in our society.

The program which brought together both men and women as well as stakeholders from the Ghana Education Service (GES), the Ghana Health Service ( GHS), the local government, and opinions leaders, was characterized by speeches, Music, Drama, and free health screening was aimed at educating the young girls, especially the students on the need to take their studies seriously and desist from all activities that may ruin their future.

Madam Millicent Ocloo speaking to Kintampo Radio on the purpose of the program admonished parents to take good care of their girl children by providing them with their basic needs to prevent them from going out for sex in exchange for money to satisfy those needs.

Madam Millicent Ocloo also advises the adolescent girls to be patient with their poor parents in times that they are unable to provide for all their needs adding that they should rather focus on studying hard to succeed in their education.

She further warned men to desist from engaging in rape, defilement, and other forms of sexual abuse of the girl child to avoid being dealt with by the law.

Meanwhile, some of the adolescent girls who attended the program told Kintampo Radio they were happy with the education they received from the resource persons adding that it had opened their eyes to a lot of things that will help them succeed in life.

Bono East Region