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Club for the Prevention of Unwanted Pregnancies
“We started the Club for the Prevention of The youth in this area have been happy to join us
Unwanted Pregnancies in March 2016. In this area, and received the messages very well. They got
before EMBRACE, there was a problem of many excited so they joined our club. Another club has
unwanted pregnancies. We made the decision to come out of this club. We began this club with about
create a youth club to do sensitizations to help 30 people. Now, in this area, especially in this sector,
prevent youth pregnancies. there are seven clubs which began because of our
club. We feel we’ve done a great job.
We use different types of strategies during the
sensitizations, things like songs and sketches. That If you want to change people, you have to go to
way we will attract many youth in the area and they where they are. We go to other villages to sensitize
will come and receive the messages on how they can the youth. If those youth make the decision to
prevent unwanted pregnancies. change, we begin another club. We give technical
support and training to the new clubs as they
One of the causes of the pregnancies is a lack of develop themselves.
resources. Some people in this region are poor. We
encourage them to join the EMBRACE savings and The clubs meet to talk about gender-based violence,
loans groups so they can access loans easier and to social security, nutrition, maternal health – the
resist those unwanted pregnancies. whole package of EMBRACE. Social security is
related to the status of the family in regards to
We were trained by EMBRACE. Our training related nutrition and social wealth for the family.
to sexual and reproductive health, especially for
young people. After those trainings, we Our motivation is to change our society. To make our
brainstormed on how we can create topics which society better. To change our youth.”
will interest other youth so that they will come and
join us as we write sketches and songs related to the
EMBRACE trainings.
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