Support teenage mothers continue to their education- Girl-child education Coordinator advises.
Support teenage mothers continue their education- Girl-child education Coordinator
The
Sagnarigu Municipal Directorate of the Ghana Education Service (GES),
has intensified its campaign for teenage mothers and pregnant students
to return to school after childbirth. The Girls
Education Unit of the Directorate is also educating students on the
effects of teenage pregnancy to help eliminate the menace among school
girls. Speaking at a sensitization programme for
BECE candidates, a Girl-child education Coordinator at the Sagnarigu
municipality Rosina Zenabu Abdul-Rahman says much as the education
directorate is concern about quality and affordable education, it is
pertinent to be equally concern about the wellbeing of school children,
especially when it became necessary to send teenage mothers back to
school.She advised parents to support their
children to return to the informal or formal school system after
delivery to empower them economically. ”I think
parents have a very big role to play in the growth and development of
the girl child, because most parents push their girls into early
marriages due to teenage pregnancy and school dropout, and this gives
parents the mind that marriage is the ultimate solution which is wrong,
parents should know that their girls cn continue schooling after
delivery and nothing should stop her from achieveing her dreams”. The
Ministry of Education has implemented a new policy to ensure that
teenage mothers have the opportunity to go back to school while
receiving support at home and from their community.Source: Ghana/Tamale/zaanews.com/Lilian D. Walter
