Teenage pregnancies and school drop-outs high in Nkoranza North

Madam Joyce Ampomah, Nkoranza North District Girls Education Officer, on Monday observed that the rate of teenage pregnancies and school drop-outs were high in the area.

Madam Ampomah, who was sharing ideas about the challenges of girls’ education with 30 traditional rulers and assembly members at Busunya, said due to teenage pregnancy, some girls ended their education at the primary level.

She, therefore, appealed to queen-mothers to revisit the organisation of puberty rites, “Bragoro” since the practice served as a monitoring indicator for girls to grow as adults before they took sexual partners.

Madam Ampomah urged parents to provide their girl-children with personal and other basic necessities of life to motivate them in their education because lack of parental support was a major contributory factor to teenage pregnancies among the girls in the communities.

She said there was the need for assembly and unit committee members to organize their people to raise funds to support the education of needy but brilliant girls to enable them to compete with their male counterparts.

She called on churches to set up endowment funds to promote girls education, particularly the brilliant but needy ones.