This project will give sexual and reproductive health education to 200 adolescent boys and girls in Ghana to empower them with credible information about sex and their reproductive health to guide them to make informed decisions about sex as a measure to prevent teenage pregnancy. This project will also go beyond prevention to provide scholarships to 50 already pregnant girls and teen mothers to go back to school to further their education.
In Ghana, an average of 112,000 girls between the ages of 10 to 19 years become pregnant every year due to lack of sexual and reproductive health education. Also in most communities in Northern Ghana, when a girl becomes pregnant, she is married to the man or boy responsible for the pregnancy, depriving her of her right to education.
The project will close the gap in sexual and reproductive health education by educating adolescents on their reproductive health, empowering them with credible information to make informed decisions about sex as measures to prevent teenage pregnancy. The project will also go beyond prevention to ensure already pregnant girls and teenage mothers are not married but are supported with scholarships to go back to school to further their education.
In the long term, this project will completely eradicate teenage pregnancy and child marriage in Ghana which will promote girls education in the country.
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