Youth SRHR and Choices Today

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...

World Population Day isn't just about Population (number of people); It has been celebrated on the 11th of July every year since 1989 to acknowledge and focus on how far we have come as a people; the good and the bad.  Population Day is celebrated to portray the state, impact, urgency and the importance of population issues: ●        Family planning  ●        Gender equality  ●        Poverty  ●        Maternal health  ●        Human rights World Population Day highlights the need in making the world, our regions, countries, states and communities safer and comfortable for all to live in irrespective of age, gender, culture, race, religion, etc. As Young people, let’s strive for a world free of Sexual and Gender-based Violence (SGBV) such as rape,and other injustices by practicing empat...