PPAG donates to Junior Girls Correctional Centre

Plan Parenthood Association of Ghana (PPAG), a non-governmental organization, has donated items and drugs from Ayrton Drug to the Vocational school of the Junior Girls’ Correctional Centre in Accra.

The donation was part of activities marking World AIDS Day, and climax of their six-week Youth Action Movement, Ghana (YAM-GH) MYX Project.

The YAM MYX Project aims at ensuring access to information and service for young people with special needs and in restricted environment; providing free comprehensive counseling, sexual and reproductive health information and medical services to young people of the Osu Remand Home.

Mr Ishmael Selassie, PPAG Youth Programme Coordinator presented the items to Madam Agnes Zu-Cudjoe, House Mistress of the Junior Girls Correctional Centre.

She thanked PPAG for the donation and appealed to other non-governmental organizations and corporate entities to help the Centre.

Mr Wise Alorvi, PPAG YAM Coordinator, said since 1967 the organization had championed comprehensive sexual education for young people within the ages of 10-24.

He said people living in restricted areas such as remand homes deserved attention and their stigmatizing must stop.

Mr Alorvi said as part of efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goal, serious attention must be given to sexual reproductive health in the country.