The Wiamoase Presby Child and Youth Development Centre in the Afigya Sekyere South District of the Ashanti region is calling for the support of every parent and Child Right activists to help curb the alarming surge in teenage pregnancies in the district especially in the Wiamoase community.
The call follows reports that the District recorded an increase in teenage pregnancy cases this year with Wiamoase being the second largest community in the district.
Madam Luckicia Kwakye, Project Director for Wiamoase Presby Child and Youth Development Centre in an interview with the media during the 10 year anniversary said, she’s worried about the menace and hence called on traditional rulers, the Ghana Education Service (GES), parents and the District Assembly to come together to find solutions to the problem.
“We need stakeholders on board, if we want to fight the high rate of teenage pregnancy in this community, let’s talk about the parents and the the traditional authorities we have in our communities, when they come together. We can save our children especially the young girls from getting pregnant,” she said.
Madam Kwakye believes the long term intervention to address this menace is quality and affordable education.
The Wiamoase District Minister of the Presbyterian Church Ghana, Rev. Seth Duodu Abedi contributing to the discussion urged Ghanaians to renew their sense of nationalism and fiercely fight corruption in officialdom.
He then cautioned Ghanaians to do away with negative thoughts, think positively, be honest, patriotic, work hard and unite to prevent the country from becoming a failed state.
He said breakdown of moral values among the citizenry, unmitigated corruption and dishonesty in officialdom and political circles, posed a bleak future for the nation.
According to him, strife and conflict situations were looming over the country with deceitfulness and evil going on unpunished.
“Let us remind ourselves of the selfless life of Christ who placed the wellbeing of others before himself and anything else,” he said.
Rev. Abedi reminded those in positions of authority, that Christ washed the feet of his disciples, and said that their positions were not meant to fill their pockets, but rather to serve the people with diligence, humility and honesty as Christ did.
He condemned nepotism, dishonesty and mistrust in the civil service and urged everybody to lead the crusade to fight corruption in society.
He then urged Ghanaians to embrace the spirit of hard work and refrain from seeking instant wealth.
“Those who are looking for more money should be ready to spend more time on job, working in the spirit of punctuality, truthfulness, great zeal and enthusiasm,” he advised.
Rev. Dr Abedi indicated sought to ensure productivity and resourcefulness to alleviate poverty, ignorance and diseases and not to acquire money through evil means.
THE guest speaker of the program, Rev. Alex Boadaa, Kwamo District Minister urged parents not to leave the academic activities of their wards in the hands of their teachers alone.
According to him, parents should equally have a critical role to ensure that the best foundation built for their children was education.
Rev. Boadaa added that education, would not only help individuals to take the mantle of leadership, but also empowers one to perfectly discharge future responsibilities hence, the need to offer pupils the required skills needed.
“It is only when we give them the requisite education and training that they can be good citizens and contribute their quota to national development in future,” he added.
