Youth SRHR and Choices Today

      The Youth advisory Board Members are excited to present to you an intriguing figure with a lot of inspiration as the personality to represent our usual " Those that inspire ". He is a youth advocate and development enthusiast who has over the years been critical in advocating for access to sexual reproductive health and rights for young people. He previously chaired the Marie Stopes Ghana Youth Advisory Board where he amplified his advocacy for increased investment in youth sexual reproductive health and rights in Ghana and positioning young people at the core of sustainable development. He has also served as the Chair of the Ghana Health Service Youth Advisory Board for the National Adolescent Health and Development Programme where he played critical roles leading the Ghana Health Service youth Advisory committee over a past two mandate. He is an alumnus of the Kufuor Scholars Programme and currently serves as an Emerging Public Leaders Fellow with the Minist...

Edith  Esinam   Asamani  is a young female  Ghana ian  who grew up in a  peri -urban slum and has reproductive health and gender issues at the core of her heart. She has been an SRHR advocate since 2012 and counting. She grew up in a community where it was a norm for adolescent girls as young as 11 or 12 to get pregnant. She knew this wasn’t right and really wanted to do something about it. Her passion and anger are what has driven her all these years to speak out and act on these challenges. Miss  Asamani  has had over a decade’s  experience in volunteerism, children,  you th, and women’s rights advocacy.  Edith is passionate about changing the world with and for young people and women. She founded KnitWeb Foundation which has initiated a virtual support network for persons suffering various forms of depression and also has as part of its flagship program, a mentorship initiative for girls and young women.  She has ga...

Being the only girl raised alongside six other children, I know how it feels to lack very essential things like sanitary towels. Let’s say I come from a home wher e eating once a day  was a blessing  and that’s why my heart went out to this yo u ng girl asking for money  to get herself a sanitary towel.  Coincidentally, she is also the only girl child amongst seven children and lives in  a community where everyone had not less than five children.  According to this new f riend of mine, her parents along with other adults in the community believed children are as a blessing and  that they have been told  to  “multiply the earth like the sand at the sea  shore ”,  thus gave birth  to  as many as they could. This  young girl was  crying and blaming her parents  for how  unke pt  and frustrated  she was because they could not afford their basic needs and her  sibling’s  age...