Moving from Good Intentions to Action- Girl Rights in Action- A Project of Kadoma Juniour Council

The Kadoma Juniro Council has a number of prppjects that empoer youths. This include building life skills, imparting emtreprneural skills and partcocipantion in civ affairs. The prpject presented here is just part of the many activities done by the Juniour school. This project- Moving from Good Intentions to Action- Girl Rights in Action is a project that involves interacting with fellow students at various schools and discusiing the problem they face as youths and try to find solution to the problem from the youth. This project was done by Kadoma City Junior Council after realisation that 24 girl children had dropped out of school at Chemukute High School after following preganant. Expect 3 the other 21 pregnnacies were a result of transgenerational sex. It was against this backgound that the Kadoma Junior council embarked on a program to sensitise students at chemukute on the dangers of premarital sex. It is our opininon that this is a good practise in that it a project for the youths by some youth. The project also fulfills the SADC ptotocol on gender Articles 14 that ensures equal accese to education and retention at all levels, it was also imacting on Article 21 that provides for adoption and implementation of policies thatâ € ¦â € ¦.ensure quality sexual and reproductive health services and finally Article 27 on HIV AIDS.

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