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| Some of the National service personnel in the crowd answering questions posed by the JHS graduates |
The National Service Personnel Association (NASPA) in the North-Tongu District in the Volta Region has embarked on a youth sensitisation programme to educate graduates of the junior high school (JHS) on teenage pregnancy and the effects of abortion.
The programme, dubbed, “Life after basic school, opportunities and challenges”, was to discourage the graduates from engaging in premarital sexual activities which could eventually destroy their lives.
The service personnel also took the young graduates through career guidance, and explained the various courses available at the senior high school (SHS) level to enlighten them to make informed decisions when choosing courses at the SHS.
The programme aimed at entertaining the JHS graduates after a hard work, and to inform them of what was at stake at the next level of their lives.
However, it could be noted that the prevalence of teenage pregnancy which sometimes leads to abortion had become very common among the primary and JHS pupils in the district.
Most reports indicated that every year during the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), some of the teenagers who get pregnant had no choice than to take their pregnancy to the examination centres to write their final exams while others because of health or shame do not write at all.
Speaking at the programme, the District National Service Scheme (NSS) Coordinator, Mr Wisdom Nudo, explained the various opportunities that the young ones could have after JHS, and used the NSS personnel as role models for the pupils to learn from them.
The programme was supported and sponsored by the Member of Parliament, Mr Joe Gidisu, and the North Tongu District Assembly.
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