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I-JEF Sensitises Female Teenagers On Health Education, Personal Hygiene In Kogi.
An NGO, Iko-Josh Empowerment Foundation (I-JEF), on Saturday sensitised prone teenage kids in Kogi on fitness education and personal hygiene to ensure a healthy dwelling and keep away from undesirable pregnancy.
Speaking at the occasion at Lokongoma Primary School Lokoja, the Executive Director of I-JEF, Mr Reuben Joshua, said the programme turned into a community focus campaign on adolescent reproductive health training and personal hygiene for prone youngsters among age 10 to 17 years.
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He said the goal became with a purpose to increase trade retailers within the age cycle of 10 to 17 years, that might influence their friends undoubtedly in phrases hygiene and intercourse education.
He said that the kids might be able to speak to their friends and educate them on what they had learnt approximately sex training and private hygiene.
”So, we’re grooming them to emerge as trade marketers in their very own era, because when they communicate to each different it has more impact than that of adults.
”Instead of falling to peer pressure negatively, others will fall to their very own peer pressure positively because of what they were taught,” he stated.
Joshua confident that the community recognition marketing campaign might be a normal event aimed at raising exchange retailers in phrases of sex schooling and private hygiene in the society.
In their lectures, Corps Members: Miss Faithful Wealth and Peace Okpala, who spoke on ”Sex Education” and ”Personal Hygiene” respectively, entreated the kids to be responsible.
Okpala advised the kids to continually preserve suitable non-public hygiene to keep away from abnormal body odour and construct self confident within the destiny.
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She advised them to attend to each a part of their body consisting of the hair, mouth, nails, armpit, non-public components, and make certain thorough and everyday bathing.
She counseled dad and mom specifically moms to take out time to watch and guide their kids in maintaining accurate private hygiene in addition to sex schooling.
On her part, Wealth suggested the girls to cognizance on their schooling, career and should no longer be distracted by boys or social media.
She cautioned parents to stop been too harsh on their children, however to be open to them to permit them freely explicit themselves.
A participant, Stella Okpanachi, 16 years old, commended the inspiration for instructing them within the regions of intercourse training and private hygiene.
According to her, the sensitisation have placed them better as teens to consciousness on their research, hold and guard themselves in opposition to negative peer stress and undesirable being pregnant.
She promised to put what she had learnt into exercise and also teach her buddies in school after they resume.
