18/05/2021
WYLF ENBACKS ON A TEEN PREGNANCY PREVENTION SENSITISATION PROGRAM AIMED AT REDUCING TEENAGE PREGNANCIES AND EARLY MARRIAGES COUNTRYWIDE.
World Youth and Leadership Foundation-WYLF will this week engage different schools, the community’s learners, parents and stakeholder to launch a teen pregnancy prevention program next week in a move to sensitize teenage pupils on the effect of teenage pregnancies and early marriages as well as sexual transmitted diseases.
This program will help strengthen parents and young people involvement in fight against teenage pregnancies and help them to understand the dangers of early pregnancy and its side effect on education and health of a girl Child.
As World Youth and Leadership Foundation we are also preparing to embark on a program to train about 200 teenagers on HIV/STIs Prevention in each province as a way to strengthen teenage and youth participation in the fight against teenage pregnancies in the country.
This training will help young people to make strong decisions and become solutions to teenage pregnancy in the country.
Our plan to embark on this project comes after the country recorded alarming numbers teenage pregnancies in some provinces such as southern province and eastern province hence the need to quickly arrest the vice before it become a trend.
It is very sad to see how Young people are being impregnated and left without support in our communities and this is why we want to engage parents, teenagers, communities and schools to help curb this vice and we are confident that once teenagers are involved in the fight, we shall see a reduction in teenage pregnancies early marriages and sexual transmitted diseases in Zambia.
Issued by
Nalishebo Nyambe
Director General
World Youth and Leadership Foundation-WYLF.