Youth SpeakUp on Teenage Pregnancy at Hopin Academy

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Hopin Academy and its partners; RUMNET, YEFL and Ghana Friends in Denmark, Youth Speak UP project which focuses mainly on youth in some four deprived districts of Tamale, Northern Ghana; Kumbungu, Savelugu, Saboba and Karaga. Youth Speak Up has been holding both offline and online discussions on various topics for the past weeks. 





They began with Violence Against Women, the likes of Miss Blessilla , Maccarthy Lomotey, Ruka Yaro, Mrs Hikmat Baba Dua, Carole Donkers, Mr Sofo, Mr Mash, Mr Mustapha, Zakaria Abdul Hakim Cisse, Clement Boateng, representatives of CHRAJ, and partner radio stations of the project and community based journalist and many many others, they gathered to discuss Violence against Women.

Last Saturday 10th September 2016, Youth SpeakUp discussed how to curb Teenage Pregnancy in the identified districts. Suggestions, causes and solutions to curb Teenage Pregnancy popped up during the Idea Platform night at Hopin Academy, causes and solutions came to live when the moderators and change makers brain stormed and come up with possible causes, effects and solutions to help bring Teenage Pregnancy to an end.




Ghana Education Service, Madam Sanatu highlighted and addressed some Teenager pregnancy issues she has encounter. Mrs Sanatu added, that the Ghana Education Service is working at adding sex education into the educational curriculum.

Madame Fati, a representative from Savelugu hospital advises all mothers to give sexuality education to their children, Madam Fatima added "let's be remodels to our young ladies" Lack of parental education is causing teenage pregnancy. When a young lady begins her mensuration, parent’s needs to let her know that, if you get close to a guy, you will get pregnant and your life will be miserable. Early education is important.




Mashud Zainab, a participant said ‘’ Self realisation is something one has to realize within him or her self and knows what he/she is up to but that goes with guidance from the parents or the role models in the community. As a child or teenager growing up u need to be guided well and be able to choose the right from the wrong’’


Abdul Qudus Mukhtar also added,  I totally agree with Mr Ramadan. What we can only do is to change the way we think towards teenage pregnancy, what we are discussing now has been discussed for long and yet we couldn't have even have a meagre change. Parents and institutions should take it upon themselves not to provide only basic needs but also provide them with them sanitary pad. Our young ladies cannot afford to buy sanitary pads and unscrupulous men take advantage of these needs.

Teenage pregnancy is defined as an unintended pregnancy during adolescence. A female teenager can be pregnant as early as age 12 or 13, although it is usually 14 or older. In Ghana, females represent 51.2 per cent of the entire population of almost 25 million whereas adolescents represent 22.4 per cent of the total population. The rates of teenage pregnancy in Ghana are high; of all births registered in the country in 2014, 30 per cent were by adolescents, and 14 per cent of adolescents aged between 15 and 19 years had begun childbearing.


Regional assessment of teenage pregnancy in Ghana shows that the Upper East, Volta, Brong Ahafo, Central and Eastern regions have the highest regional rates of 14 per cent and above between of 2012 and 2014. Of these regions the Upper East Region has the highest national prevalence rate of teenage pregnancy – 15 per cent. The Northern Region has the lowest prevalence rate of 4.4 per cent and is followed by Greater Accra with 6.6 per cent.

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