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AYRH: Connected Advocacy conduct training for Social Mobilizer

By Isaac Eranga


Benin City: The Executive Director of Connected Advocacy for Empowerment and Youth Development Initiative - Prince Israel Orekha, said there was need for concerted effort to address the prevalent rate of unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortion amongst adolescents and youths in Nigeria through life planning programs. 

Prince Orekha said this in a one-day step down training for social mobilizers on adolescent youth reproductive health (AYRH) services in Oredo local government area, put together by Connected Advocacy with technical support from The Challenge Initiative (TCI), recently in Benin. He said the role of the social mobilizers is to help adolescents and youths understand how their body works, equipping them with information and provision of services to make informed decisions as they transit to adulthood.

"It is also to help them make responsible life choices and healthy decisions about their reproductive health with complete and correct information.

"There is need for the adolescents and youths to gain life skills. This will help them in the following ways: accepting themselves the way they are; identifying their strengths and weaknesses; identifying their values and behave according to them; set realistic goals; develop their abilities and be proud of them; cultivate positive relationships; be specific about what they feel and what they need from the other person; etc. These will help in effective life planning.

"Life planning helps adolescents and youths in making life choices and healthy decisions about their reproductive health with complete and correct information. It also enables them to better face challenges and uncertainties that are common in today's world. Unplanned childbirth is life changing, and can influence their educational, marital and career opportunities. Life planning is the basis of a person's future", he said.

Prince Orekha called on adolescents and youths in Edo State to go to primary healthcare centers close to them to access reproductive health information and services so as to live a healthy sexual and reproductive life, saying they are free.

Also speaking, a Reproductive Health Supervisor with Oredo local government area, Mrs. Adesuwa Omorere said communicating with adolescents about their reproductive health enables them make informed and correct choices. She said life planning helps young people prepare for a healthy future.

"Talking with young people about reproductive health make informed choices such as delay sexual debut, not fall to peer pressure, giving consent and respecting a partner's decision to refuse sex, and use contraceptives if they are sexually active", Mrs. Omorere said.

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