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Francisca (17) has two kids. Her hope of becoming a seamstress or a hairdresser was gradually fading because of her status as an adolescent mother: ‘People began to look down upon me and told me I've wasted my life. For me I thought all was lost’, she tells us.
This fading hope is restored now she can participate in a Skill Training of Her Choice so that she can become a seamstress or a hairdresser. This week Her Choice alliance member The Hunger Project-Ghana inaugurated the Skill Training Center at the Sakabo Epicenter to provide girls with similar stories to Francisca’s a skill that can empower them economically for the rest of their lives. The Sakabo Epicenter is the ninth to receive this support from the Her Choice programme. 11 married girls and adolescent mothers had been registered to receive training in Bakery, Hairdressing & Sewing.
After successful entrepreneurship and vocational training the teen mothers are able to set up small businesses. Through this, the ladies make money that offers a livelihood to them and their children. Teenage pregnancy remains the biggest killer of teenage girls in the developing world. Young women aged 15 to 19 are twice as likely to die from complications in pregnancy as compared to older women.
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