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Teachers need to be trained on how to be sensitive and help encourage pregnant girls to stay in school. The community also plays a huge role for girls to stay in school.

@mkubvoruno #ruhusiwa #girlsallowed

Investing in cultural and traditional leaders who become custodians of the whole process to make sure that pregnant girls go back to school. Victimisation is not the way to help pregnant girls access education

@mkubvoruno from @rozariaconnects
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In our programming, we are seeing a 100 % pass rate of pregnant girls passing school and we even have a case of one studying Law at the Ezekiel Guti University

@mkubvoruno from @rozariaconnects
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There is over 100 000 student who dropped our of public schools in Ghana and about 30 000 of them because of getting pregnant, I know that there is more girls unaccounted for in the country

@anyarkop
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We need teenage mums to enrol in school and their children in daycare centres. You may say it's controversial but we need to educate teenage mothers so they have a chance to fight better for their life.

@anyarkop #ruhusiwa #girlsallowed

Society and culture shun pregnancy outside marriage as it's a sign of promiscuity worse for the school-going age. We need to sensitise family, community and religious leaders so they can support the girl child
@JulietBvekwa #ruhusiwa #girlsallowed

We had so many pregnant girls during the lockdowns we had paid school fees for we had materials, uniforms for and also knew the policy of re-admission but did not come back into school because of stigma within the school systems

@JulietBvekwa #ruhusiwa #girlsallowed

One of our beneficiaries got pregnant from an upstanding community member (caregiver) and the family knew about it but couldn't prosecute or encourage the girl child to go back to school
@LMakuwo #ruhusiwa #girlsallowed

There is a report that just got published in Botswana that says that there are over 2000 girls that have dropped out of school between 2017 - 2022, we need to care more for both the teen mums and the children they carry @LMakuwo #ruhusiwa #girlsallowed

We need to capacitate groups of girls especially if they have school clubs that help coordinate & fight for any of their peers who have gotten pregnant. Once they know they have the ability to appeal to the police & social services to fight

@mkubvoruno #ruhusiwa #girlsallowed

Acceptance and encouraging girls are key so that they know they can be able to provide her children is key.
Raising awareness is Key.

We need as CSOs, projects and people working in these areas need to be in alliance with the media so they can report and talk about the problems around implementation and get media access to these stories. Each story is important
@ttakafuma #ruhusiwa #girlsallowed

Making education free and solving household poverty to reduces the barrier to entry for a pregnant girl going back to school. Creating options for e-learning, vocational and basic education goes a long way to make it easier for girls
@vanyaradzayi #ruhusiwa #girlsallowed

Some of these young girls getting pregnant are children who have been raped or abused by people in the community and we need to support them and get them back to school, education is an investment
@vanyaradzayi #ruhusiwa #girlsallowed

We will need to also support teen mums who need to go back to school. We need to our leaders accountable, we need to get them to put in measures to punish those that stop girls from going back to school.
@WinnyObure #ruhusiwa #GirlsAllowed

Being a teen mum is not a disability it does not make any child less worthy or less human than anyone else.
@lmakuwo #ruhusiwa #girlsallowed

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