Once I wrote a post on an encounter I had with a pregnant
teenager, how I got curios about the issue and if it was seen as a problem in
our society. But I realised a society that doesn’t see how potentials of its
future can be truncated by circumstantial happenings that it deems trivial and
would just divert those potentials to a quarter of non-actualisation is playing
with a dwarf. That society probably needs individuals tall enough to see beyond
their noses to tell and lead the society to the place of better everydays at
least.
We really don’t care if you don’t see teenage pregnancy as a
problem plaguing your society but it is a problem with 10,000 girls getting
pregnant every term in school or 50,000 girls dying as a result of how they
handled or got handled in their teenage pregnancy, this is a reality we better
face now!
MAD Network, ever heard of them? Well, you just did. Making
A Difference Network, a network of positive change agents for the future of our
community, society, and country is taking on teenagers, empowering them to make
a difference. MAD Network is embarking on Making A Difference About Teenage
Pregnancy with an Advocacy Workshop in Secondary Schools starting with Four in
the Ibadan North East Local Government Area of Oyo State Nigeria. MAD Network
has themed this MAD About TP advocacy workshop “Breaking the Silence” because
she seeks to initiate open conversations about teenage pregnancy, its causes
and how those that are susceptible to teenage pregnancy can learn to make
decisions right for them on the 3rd April 2014 at Renascent High
School, Agugu, Ibadan.
MAD Network needs volunteers for this event and you can tweet
@dMadNetwork , post on the facebook page www.facebook.com/MADNetwork , or
mail madnetwork4change@gmail.com
to notify them of your interest to volunteer as an educator or make any useful contribution
to its success.
We can all TAKE A STAND AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE for a better
future can’t we?
Live. Learn. Love
