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Some men, boys and parents in some districts in the Upper East Region have been trained on key national policies and legal frameworks that speak against the practice of child marriage in Ghana. The training was to equip the participants who are championing campaigns against child marriage and related practices…
Teenage pregnancies in the Upper East Region, reduced marginally at the end of 2022 and the first quarter of 2023. The region, at the end of last year, recorded 14.2 per cent of teenage pregnancies as against 15.4 per cent and 15.2 per cent at the end of 2020 and…
Teni (pseudo name) is an 18-year-old teenage mother of two from Gowrie, a farming community in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region. She dropped out of school at the Junior High School level at the age of 16 to marry when she got pregnant with her first born.…
Mr James Twene, the Upper East Regional Director, Department of Gender, has asked men and boys to lead vigorous campaign in their various communities against child marriage. He said child marriage continued to truncate the education of children particularly girls and there was the need for collective efforts to eradicate…
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