SDA to form virgins clubs

Akumsa-Domase (B/A), Sept. 1, GNA - The Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Church is to form virgin clubs in its branches to enable young female members to lead morally upright life.

Pastor Israel Nana Tuffour, President of the South Central Ghana Conference of the Church announced this at the weekend at a five-day annual camp meeting of the Nkoranza South District branch of the Church at Akumsa-Domase.

He said the programme was launched recently at the Church at Asokore in Ashanti Region when 100 young girls offered to join the club and carry out educational campaign against sexual promiscuity at all branches.

Out of the 100 girls examined by doctors, 94 of them proved negative to any form of sexual practice and have been registered as the pioneers of the SDA church virgins club, the Pastor added. Pastor Tuffour said the clubs would also help the youth to guard themselves against HIV/AIDS or to drop out of school as a result of pregnancy.

He disclosed that the Adventist Development Relief Agency (ADRA) had decided to assist the youth in the Church to go into the cultivation of psychic nuts towards a bi-chemical diesel project.

ADRA will provide the seedlings of the nuts, popularly known as 'nkrangyedua' to enable interested youth and farmers to undertake the project, the pastor added.

He appealed to traditional leaders and landowners to release enough plots of land to the youth to undertake the project.