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    Virtuous Boardroom assists Ahanta West pregnant teens with second chance options

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    The Virtuous Boardroom, a grouping of female professionals drawn from diverse backgrounds, reached out to selected pregnant teens in Ahanta West with a package of options to enable the girls pursue education or vocational options after their education was truncated following pregnancy. The outreach and assistance was announced on the occasion of the the birthday of the association’s President, Nana Yaa Amoako-Adu.

    The following is a breakdown of individualized assistance provided to the girls:

    • 10 girls who had interest in sewing and dressmaking had their apprenticeship training fees paid for them. The beneficiaries were each provided with a sewing machine and will be supported with the needed supplies to enable them complete their training.
    • A beneficiary with interest in catering had her fees paid in full to enable her get here education at Abura Vocational School.
    • Two beneficiaries had apprenticeship fees paid in full to enable her obtain the required training without any hinderance.
    • Six of beneficiaries indicated their desire to continue to Senior High. Virtuous Boardroom will sponsor one of the six for the entire three years of high school. The remainder of five beneficiaries have yet to complete Junior High. Virtuous Boardroom committed to pay their fees and provide additional supports needed until they sit for the Basic Certificate Examinations (BECE). They also have added opportunity to continue to Senior High.
    • Virtuous Boardroom donated GHS500 to six selected mothers of the beneficiaries to enable them take mind the babies while their teen girls while the girls took up the opportunities to turn their lives around through schooling or vocational training.

    President of Virtuous Boardroom Nana Yaa Amoako-Adu said the association’s gesture would serve as a source of encouragement to the would-be teen mothers and demonstrate to them that their lives need not end because they made choices that ended up in pregnancies:

    They can get back up. Take this opportunity that has been offered them and work at building their dream and once they stay committed that dream will surely come to pass. They should not allow their mistake to affect them in anyway. Rather, it should serve as a learning curve for them. And we will continue to help them once they stay committed.”

    She explained that she led the Virtuous Boardroom to show love to the teen mothers because everyone deserved a second chance, which is consistent with the club’s motto: “We rise by lifting others.”

    “I did what I did because God told me to do it. And it was not hard for me to hear and respond to God’s call because this is something I do and like to do a lot. I want to encourage all of us to give no matter how small it is. You may think it is small but in the eyes of the beneficiary, that which you consider small may mean the whole world to him or her. So let’s give and let nothing stop us from giving freely. That is God’s ultimate request from us.”

    President of Virtuous Boardroom Nana Yaa Amoako-Adu

    Since 2018, the Ahanta West Municipality has earned the unenviable spot as the leading district with the highest number teen pregnancies in Ghana’s Western Region. In 2018, the municipality recorded 701 cases representing 17.2 percent. In 2019, there were 711 cases representing 16.7 percent and in 2020, the numbers rose to 739 representing 16.1 percent. The teen mothers are between the ages of 13 and 19 and most of them are junior high school students.

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