Commissioner Urges NGO To Educate Residents On Family Planning
Yambio County Commissioner Kuzee John Elia has urged the humanitarian organizations working in the county to educate the citizens on the importance of child spacing to enable the parents to have healthy children and able to support their needs. 27 January 2013 By Joseph Nashion YAMBIO, 24 January 2013 [Gurtong] –The commissioner called on Marie Stopes organization to focus on teaching family planning to school girls to reduce the rate of early pregnancy and school dropout due to pregnancies. Kuzee called upon the team to work closely with the state Ministry of Health because that’s where they will get reports on what’s happening in the state. He said most of the citizens have a perception that they had lost family members during the war time and they want to replace their dead relatives by producing more children. Marie Stopes works in ten centres; six in Yambio County and four in Nzara County on health production and they teach the public on family planning and child spacing. The officials had paid the visit to the commissioner to acquaint with the happenings in regards to their activities of Marie Stopes. Posted in: Home, Governance, Health, Foreign Aid/Assistance Comments There are currently no comments, be the first to post one. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
