By Comfort Ikpeme | Project Leader
Social work/Community intervention is one of the institutional fulfilment for girls in GPI who have completed the three years comprehensive sexuality education training at the safe space before they can be certified “peer educators”. This is to enable the girls share information and knowledge gained on sexual and reproductive health issues with members of an identified community especially issues surrounding girls education, their growing up, the challenges they faced as well as ways to handle them.
For the year 2017, the girls identified Mbarakom community in Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State, Nigeria with a population of over ten thousand people where fishing, farming and trading is the major occupations of the community members.
Despite the average level of literacy in the community, the reproductive health challenges identified by girls were; teenage/unintended pregnancies, cohabitation, gender discrimination, stigmatization of rape victims, male child preference, human trafficking and lack of accurate information on sexuality education. The girls were able to discuss with the community leaders on strategic measures to handle these problems and also provided members of the community (men, women, youth, adolescent and children) with accurate information and tips on how to handle some of the effects of cultural practices.
Exciting about this activity was the immediate outcome where we recorded increment in knowledge gained and pledges from some teenagers to stop cohabiting with people they are not married to.
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