AWARENESS PROGRAM ON PREVENTION OF TEENAGE PREGNANCY CONDUCTED IN LONGLENG

District Administration and District Hub for empowerment of women (DHEW) Longleng in collaboration with Nagaland Aids Control Society (NSACS), Longleng conduct an awareness program on prevention of Teenage Pregnancy on 27th April 2024, at Lempong convention hall Longleng with DSRC Counsellor District Hospital Longleng, Lithei Phom, as the resource person.

        The resource person emphasized on the topics: Consequences- physiologically, psychologically and socially Prevention, Health Education, Life Skill Education at school, home and church. She said the main reason of teenage Pregnancy is lack of inadequate sex education.

        In her conclusion she said it is hard to raise a child when you are still a child, in order to prevent, young people should be morally intact and determinate about one's own future, positive choice, commitment and abstinence.

       DMC DHEW Longleng, P. Phungla Phom, in her introductory note, encouraged the students to take such program seriously and to think of themselves as most privileged and fortunate to be part of this program. SFL DHEW Longleng, Afen Phom chaired the program. Students from various schools of Longleng town from classes 9 to 12 attended the awareness program. Chingkhong, Assistant women Pastor Longleng Town Baptist Church proposed the invocation.

   (Manjong, IA Longleng)