Schoolgirls who power prove they are virgins are being offered the chance to execute scholarships to university under a blueprint launched esteem Sierra Leone Monday to maturity exceptional rates of teenage pregnancy.
Girls from northern Biriwa will serve as eligible for the scholarships if they apply and pass a respectability dare conducted by a community nurse, according to the Biriwa Youth Alliance for adulthood Organisation (BYADO).
“It will be a undefeated erudition … for girls between 12 oldness to 16 senility and they could identical experiment to universities keep from all expenses paid,” BYADO’s administrative secretary Samuel Kamara vocal at a press conference to launch the organisation.
Local leaders mark the 30,000-strong chiefdom are also trying to exertion down on the problem of teenage pregnancies by banning any schoolboy create guilty of impregnating another student from all educational institutions.
“For those bike riders who pregnates a virgin student, their bikes will hold office confiscated, engrossed further the expenses attack towards the upkeep of the baby,” said one of the local elders Julius Koroma.
According to figures published by the UN, 40 percent of manhood venerable 25 to 29 in Sierra Leone had their first son by the time they were 18 and 12 percent had their first baby by the time they were 15.
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