Adidome( V/ R), March 25, MARK NESWIN GH came across a composition – An adolescent girls commission club run by the Planned Parenthood Association Ghana( PPAG) is helping save an abandoned ICT centre at Adidome in the Central Tongu District of the Volta Region from total ruin. The structure was put up by mobile telecommunications company MTN in 2012 as a devoted support for ICT development in the quarter but was soon abandoned by burglars as stakeholders failed to bring it to intended relevance. Over 40 computer sets and other high- end widgets including printers and internet waiters were ransacked, with broken pieces littering the installation and its surroundings as forensic substantiation of the pinch. For times, the structure and its contents, not precious enough to be despoiled, enjoyed the cover of wild leafage and the company of reptiles. The Young and Wise Club, the PPAG’s girls social club, set up the place useful, and through the help of the original assemblywoman, gutted it up and made it befitting for its Reproductive Health Education and Services for Youth( RHESY) programme.

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The Club was formed in 2019 and moved to the abandoned centre about a time latterly, after managing sessions in classrooms and other in-conducive settings. Presently, windows remain torn, and the installation is yet to have electricity reconnected, and so conditioning can not enter the dark. The girls ’ club is part of programmes under the Seven Country Program, a UNFPA action being enforced by the PPAG, and which over the times has been necessary in transubstantiating the disturbing outlook of the Tongu sections as a mecca for child sexual rights abuse and related challenged including underage gravidity and marriages. Several teen maters have been supported to return to academy, while the colorful livelihood commission chops offered, which includes the product of detergents and cleansers, and catering, helps give the demanded fiscal independence to sustain their development. The structure was positioned at a point fluently accessible to the colorful communities in that area, and that the installation had come a center pivotal to the work of the Organization as it helped sustain daily meetings. He noted how adolescent sexual and reproductive health programming by the Club attracted youthful girls seeking retreat from raptorial realities and said quite a number had served from its class, exiting with applicable chops they could make their lives upon. “ What they're learning then has motivated five girls from the area to go back to academy with gravidity and recently born babies.

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The field Officer said MTN should consider refitting the structure with the rearmost technologies and widgets to attract youthful people and said the PPAG would insure its operation for the nonstop benefit of all.

The place should be a resource center for youthful people. So far in Adidome, there's no substantial resource center, and reproductive health challenges are the major challenge we're facing in the country – teenage gestation, STI, unsafe revocations etc.,” Mr Makam appealed. The Young and Wise Club admits about 20 members and periodically permits some manly adolescents who also are targets of the nonprofit for their places in youthful womanish development.


                                                          

Source: GNA