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STRENGTHENING CHILD PROTECTION THROUGH ENHANCED STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT: 1

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A year ago

At the point when FIVE-year old Shamsiya Dahamani was shipped off her grandma for cultivating at Walewale, in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North East Region, her folks trusted she would get the required consideration and schooling.

 

Shamsiya was enlisted into school while she remained with her grandma and afterward moved to reside with her aunt and her better half where sheattendedthe Ebenezer Presbyterian School in Walewale till she contacted her last year and enrolled for the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).

 

Thus, everything appeared to be well till a couple of months to the beginning of the BECE, when Shamsiya got back to her dad's home in Zangumyakura, a local area in the district.

 

"I was at home when my girl dropped without help from anyone else. I was stressed and upset when I saw her, on the grounds that nobody enlightened me concerning her coming," says Dahaman Seini, Shamsiya's dad.

 

Yet, it didn't take long for Shamsiya's folks to understand what brought their little girl home eventhough she should get ready to sit her end of the year tests for her middle school training in Walewale.

 

A family meeting was called and when I went, they let me know that my little girl was pregnant," Shamsiya's dad reviews. "I was extremely miserable and crushed about the news.

 

I didn't realize I was pregnant, it was my grandma in Walewale who saw me and asked who impregnated me and I told her it was my aunt's significant other, Yusif, however she didn't trust me, and he additionally denied being liable for the pregnancy," Shamsiya says. "In this way, after some time I left them and came to my dad's home.

 

The sad circumstance put 15-year-old Shamsiya's schooling in an in-between state as she could never again proceed with her examinations at the Ebenezer Presbyterian School in Walewale.

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