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This photo shows a young girl who has dropped out of school and married off due early pregnancy

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What does the picture you have chosen illustrate in your point of view? 

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What does the picture you have chosen illustrate in your point of view? 

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The photo we have chosen illustrates child marriage which is now a case in most families in our communities.
It  illustrates early marriage.
It also indicates teenage pregnancy .
It illustrates lack of guidance and counselling of  young girls by the respective people in the community.
Illustrates peer influence.
School dropout due to early pregnancy.

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Does it show a sole case or stand for a broader problem? 

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Does it show a sole case or stand for a broader problem? 

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Yes it is broader problem since schools were closed due to COVID-19 pandemic and school going students got involved in bad peer groups.

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For how long has this problem been existing? 

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For how long has this problem been existing? 

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This problem has existed for so long and it is alarming today.

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Why is this problem existing? Who is responsible? 

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Why is this problem existing? Who is responsible? 

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1. Lack of guidance and counselling to children especially girls on sex education by the parents or guardians.
2. Closure of schools due to COVID-19 lockdown which has made girls to stay at home doing nothing.
3. Children's rights especially those that do not allow disciplinary action on children when they go wrong.
4. Poverty which causes lack of basic needs of life making them to be easily lured to men for money.
5. Abandonment of children by their parents or guardians which makes girls to be vulnerable to early pregnancy.
6. Phonography by most children which exposes them to bad acts.
7. Peer influence
8. Dressing style which makes them vulnerable to rape and hence early pregnancy.
9. Drug abuse by both girls and adults.
People responsible for this problem include;
Children or girls themselves
Leaders
Parents or guardians
the youth and adults.

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Have there been attempts to overcome this problem? If so, why have they failed?

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Have there been attempts to overcome this problem? If so, why have they failed?

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Sensitization, education and awareness raising to children and the community on the dangers of early pregnancies.
Laws that protect children against child abuse.
Encouragement and inspiration from fellow girls and women in better lives.

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What could people do in their personal surrounding (school, family, village) in order to solve this problem? Which obstacles need to be overcome? 

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What could people do in their personal surrounding (school, family, village) in order to solve this problem? Which obstacles need to be overcome? 

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SCHOOL
_Sex  education  through  guidance and counseling
_Having  clubs at school  e.g teenage, PIACSY, young talk ,health clubs etc
_Having  talking compound  with posters
PIACSY messages  should be given to the learners
_Rules and regulations  that govern the school
_ Encouraging  peer education
FAMILY
1.Providing  basic  needs to  the children
2.parents  should be role models in their families
3.parents should  provide sex education  to their  children
4.Encourage children  to dress decently   when at home and out of home
5.Avoid the use of bad language before children
6.Children   should not be exposed  to pornography   through video
7.Restricting  children from unnecessary  movements
8.Involve children   in productive work   like projects to keep them busy
VILLAGE
Sanitizing the community  about disadvantage early pregnancy
parents should report  defilers to the relevant authorities
Leader should prevent children love movies

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What needs to be done by state institutions in order to achieve change? Which obstacles need to be overcome? 

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What needs to be done by state institutions in order to achieve change? Which obstacles need to be overcome? 

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1.sponsoring  education  of children
2.Enacting  laws against bad practices
3.promoting  girl child education
4.Guidance and counsel the children  on early  pregnancies
5.sex education
6.PIACSY  messages
What needs  to be done
- providing basic needs to the community
_Providing  developmental projects  like NAADs
_state should have policies that protect children  from child abuse
_ To lobby from Ngos to support education programmes

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What needs to be done to make change sustainable? 

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What needs to be done to make change sustainable? 

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1.continuous  guidance  and counseling
2.Accommodate  children   in schools
3.continuous suply of basic needs