WOMEN SUPPORT AND ACTIVIST GROUP . (WOSAG)

The Women Support and Activist Group (WOSAG) an NGO has called on Parents, Guardians and Teachers to educate their wards on sexual reproductive health to enable them to make better life choices. Some volunteers of WOSAG made this call in an interview with the host of the Savannah daybreak show on Radio Savannah in Tamale today. According to the team leader of WOSAG volunteers, Kabiri Emmanuella, educating adolescent children on sexual reproduction makes them aware of their life choices. She said sexual education also helps adolescents to transition into puberty and understand their reproductive health rights. Another volunteer, Dominique Osbourne said children have the right to know the dangers involved in having unprotected sex and to seek the advice of parents. She explained that, if parents do not teach their adolescent children about sexuality, they could get misinformed by their peers. WOSAG is moving from community to community to educate women leaders on the importance of educating the adolescent child on sexual reproductive health. The group attributed the huge number of teenage pregnancies in the country to inadequate sex education and called for change.