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Asutifi North records 24 pregnancies in BECE

Twenty-four pregnant girls and eight nursing mothers, participated in the just-ended Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) in the Asutifi North District of Brong-Ahafo.

Date Created : 6/9/2016 12:00:00 AM : Story Author :

The number represented a 100 per cent increment over last year's figures, which had 12 pregnant girls and 12 nursing mothers as candidates, Mrs. Abrafi Kyei, Asutifi North Girls Education Officer, stated during project citizen show case programme on Wednesday at Kenyase.

The programme, jointly organised by Action Aid Ghana and the Center for Maternal Community Empowerment (CMCE), a local community-based civil society organization, was aimed at giving opportunities to Junior High School (JHS) students in the Asutifi North and South Districts to present their concerns and challenges to the society.

It was also a platform to educate the general public about those concerns and challenges, and identify possible solutions to them.

Students from four JHSs at Kodiwohia, Kenyase Number Three (Atwedie) and Dokyikrom, all in the Asutifi North and Apenemadi in Asutifi South, presented their findings about issues affecting education and the society in general in the two districts.

Mrs. Kyei bemoaned the fact that teenage pregnancy had become so alarming in the two districts and said this unfortunate situation therefore needed a holistic approach to curb and reduce the rate of occurrence.

She urged parents to be responsible by providing the basic necessities of life to their children, especially their daughters, to support them to stay in school.

Mrs. Kyei advised parents not to neglect their children who gave birth while in school, but encourage and assist them in such situations to get back to school.