[contextly_sidebar id=”BbLitcjcX9f93XF3rp3jv7qTg783PCWV”]“Today as we speak, one out of ten young girls between the ages of fifteen and seventeen is married off in the Central Region which is not good for us. So looking at all these, we all need to do something to end child marriage.”
Mr. Awadey also challenged chiefs and opinion leaders to lead the fight against child marriage which has effects on the communities.
“We need to ask ourselves what happens to those who marry as children.
It affects them when they give birth, the children they give birth to are affected; the family is affected; our community is affected and the country as a whole is also affected because the girl who marries at the age of fifteen, has no work to do and so she becomes poor and a burden to the parents,” he stated.
He said child marriage is a criminal offence and should be treated as such in order to reduce teenage pregnancy in the Central Region.
He said the project would help to improve girl-child education in all the affected communities in the region.
The Chief of Gomoa Ngyiresi, Nana Kwesi Esuon Andoh, said the increase in child marriage in the Gomoa communities has affected the development of the girl child in the region.
In the Central Region, over 31% of young girls are forced into child marriage.
International Needs, a non-governmental organisation under the auspices of UNICEF, has thus launched the project to fight teenage pregnancy in sixteen communities within the Gomoa West District, and the Mfantseman Municipal Assembly.
The launch was attended by chiefs, opinion leaders, parents and students.
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By: Akwesi Koranteng/citifmonline.com/Ghana
[contextly_sidebar id=”BbLitcjcX9f93XF3rp3jv7qTg783PCWV”]“Today as we speak, one out of ten young girls between the ages of fifteen and seventeen is married off in the Central Region which is not good for us. So looking at all these, we all need to do something to end child marriage.”
Mr. Awadey also challenged chiefs and opinion leaders to lead the fight against child marriage which has effects on the communities.
“We need to ask ourselves what happens to those who marry as children.
It affects them when they give birth, the children they give birth to are affected; the family is affected; our community is affected and the country as a whole is also affected because the girl who marries at the age of fifteen, has no work to do and so she becomes poor and a burden to the parents,” he stated.
He said child marriage is a criminal offence and should be treated as such in order to reduce teenage pregnancy in the Central Region.
He said the project would help to improve girl-child education in all the affected communities in the region.
The Chief of Gomoa Ngyiresi, Nana Kwesi Esuon Andoh, said the increase in child marriage in the Gomoa communities has affected the development of the girl child in the region.
In the Central Region, over 31% of young girls are forced into child marriage.
International Needs, a non-governmental organisation under the auspices of UNICEF, has thus launched the project to fight teenage pregnancy in sixteen communities within the Gomoa West District, and the Mfantseman Municipal Assembly.
The launch was attended by chiefs, opinion leaders, parents and students.
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By: Akwesi Koranteng/citifmonline.com/Ghana