REMI empowers youth

Remodelling Early Mothers Initiative (REMI), a non-profit organisation, has organised an educational and self-empowerment workshop for the youth in Ada in the Greater Accra region.

The event which was dedicated to the promotion of positive behavioural change was to give the youth a tool to make a positive change in their various communities.

Speaking at the workshop, founder of REMI, Ms. Rhoda Doku, said they saw the need to help the people in Ada to come out of poverty.

According to Ms. Doku, they used their efforts and expertise to help raise the self-esteem of these girls who became pregnant in their teens.

She pointed out that she could feel pains of those girls having experienced similar situation some time ago.

“I lost my father at the age of 13 and owing to the emotional void I became pregnant and a single parent too,” Rhoda recounted.

However, she said she was fortunate to have had people who were supportive around her.

She blamed most communities for shunning most of these pregnant teens, leaving them to fend for themselves.

When it happens like this, it is the girls who suffer the most, she added.

Speaking to Today, some of the participants described the workshop as positive.

They indicated that it would go a long way to help them solve their domestic problems.

A participant, who gave her name as Angela, was delighted that she could go back to school and continue with her education.