Windhoek — The Hage Geingob High School in Katutura is holding its first pregnancy awareness week campaign.
According to the Life Skills teacher at the school, Delphia Jimmy, who is also the organiser and initiator of the campaign, on average six to seven girls fell pregnant at the school last year.
She described this as "alarming". As a result, she decided to do something while it was still early in the year "to see if the rate would drop and the whole school is involved," she said in an interview. A number of activities are lined up throughout the week. A among these are suggestions from parents on how to tackle teenage pregnancies. Dramas, choir performances, motivational speeches are part of the weeklong programme.
Parents, teachers, learners and the Councillor of the Moses //Garoeb Constituency, Martin David, attended the official opening on Monday.
"Parents should talk to their children and encourage them to study and not focus on things that will destroy them and their future," David told New Era at the official opening. He said gambling, alcohol and drug abuse were some of the destructing elements of the youth's future.
"The future of the country is in the hands of the youth and children. We should try our best to encourage them to study," he stressed.
He said the teenage pregnancy awareness week campaign is an important platform and learners would take the message (on how not to fall pregnant) seriously as it would come from different sources who would speak as one voice.
A Grade 8 learner at that school, Jacobina Shikongo said: "It's really not good to fall pregnant while you are young." She added that there were health problems, educational problems and economic problems involved when a teenager falls pregnant.
She explained that teenagers risked having many health complications when pregnant.
"They run the risk of being out of school and not being able to financially care for their infants. I encourage my peers not to get pregnant," said Shikongo.
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201202090538.html
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