Parents are being urged to help pregnant and parenting teenagers.
The Afadzato South District Girls Education Officer, Janet Esi Hammond, has engaged guardians to help their pregnant young ladies or the people who had conveyed of their children to empower them to proceed with their schooling.
She said 22 teen young ladies in the District exited school in 2018/19 scholastic year because of pregnancy, adding that, out of a sum of 112 teen young ladies who got pregnant somewhere in the range of 2018 and 2021, simply 45 have gotten back to the study halls.
Lady Hammond uncovered this in a meeting with GBC News when the Volta Regional Department of Gender coordinated a day's Advocacy meeting program for pregnant young people/moms in the Afadzato South District.
Members were taken through points, for example, sexual and orientation based savagery, Child marriage, teen pregnancy: impacts and counteraction with an emphasis on STIs and family arranging, GES pregnancy and reemergence Policy among others.
The program, which was financed by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) under the exercises of its seventh nation program, was to engage and fabricate the limit of pregnant young people/moms to get back to school to proceed with their examinations or get familiar with an exchange for the improvement of their lives and society.
The Afadzato South District Girls Education Officer, Janet Esi Hammond encouraged them to comply with their folks in order to help them to get back to school.
"Starting from the commencement of the GES reemergence Policy, we have kept 45 reemergence young ladies in the District from 2018 to 2021, we are yet to add that of 2022. Guardians ought to acknowledge their young pregnant young ladies and love them more since that isn't the finish of their lives thus they ought to ensure they oblige them and backing them to get back to school."
"The young ladies too anything their folks provide for them, the little that their folks have and provide for them, they ought to acknowledge it with honest intentions."
The Volta Regional Director of the Department of Gender, Thywill Eyra Kpe said training is the main device for the strengthening of any youngster and hence encouraged pregnant teenagers/moms to exploit the Government's reemergence strategy to seek after their schooling with all earnestness to get a superior future.
She depicts the rate at which a few networks in the Volta Region have recorded practically zero pregnancy this year as empowering. She said her unit with subsidizing from the UNFPA is abandoning nobody in the battle against high school pregnancy in the Volta Region.
"We want to abandon nobody thus we have programs that are focusing on various classes of partners. We have programs that are focusing on our folks, up to this point we have our folks networks in our seven networks in Afadzato South, South Dayi, and North Dayi."
"We likewise have Community Watch Committees, where the actual networks have met up to safeguard these youths from pregnancy and strangely, last week we visited a portion of these networks and we were glad to report that those networks with the Watch Committees have recorded very little or no pregnancies this year, as it's great as far as we're concerned to go."
A comparable occasion was before coordinated for pregnant teenagers/moms in the Akatsi North District by the Department.
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