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 pregnancy in the district especially the Wiamoase community.
This came to light when the district recorded an increase in teenage pregnancy cases this year with Wiamoase, the second largest community in the district topping the chat.
Project director for Wiamoase Presby Child and Youth Development centre, Madam Lukicia Kwakue in an interview with the media during the 10th anniversary said, she’s worried about the menace and 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.
Madam Lukicia Kwakue 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 who also spoke at the event urged Ghanaians to renew a sense of nationalism and fiercely fight corruption in officialdom.
He then cautioned Ghanaians to do away with negative thoughts and think positive.
“Let’s be honest, patriotic, work hard and unite to prevent the country from becoming a failed state”, he said.
According to him, breakdown of moral values among the citizenry, unmitigated corruption and dishonesty in officialdom and political circles, posed a bleak future for the nation adding that, 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 also reminded those in 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.
