CEWEFIA is seeking support for 80 Vulnerable teenage Mothers who are school drop-outs due to teenage pregnancy and are single handedly taking care of their children and have not acquired any employable skills to enter into other businesses apart from the fish processing business which for the past ten years is in serious crisis due the dwindling Fish Stocks.
The depleting marine fish stock arising from over fishing and excessive pressure on available fish resources have rendered women vulnerable and poor. Some of these vulnerable women are teenage mothers who are school drop-outs and have not acquired any employable skills to enter into other businesses. Unfortunately, out of poverty, some of these vulnerable women and girls sell their children at $10.00 to some perpetrators who traffic them to be engaged in hazardous forms of child Labour.
The project will train 80 vulnerable teenage mothers in livelihoods such as soap making, beads making, business development skills and provide them with start-up capital to enter into business and also link them to local markets.
The project seeks to reduce poverty among the teenage mothers in Dago. It is expected that the 80 mothers who would have been supported would be able to take care of their households and also employ other teen mothers who did not benefit from the project support. The project would have reduced the risk of child labor and trafficking in the target community and Ghana as a whole.
