Sunday, 1 January 2017

An adolescent reproductive healthcare App unveiled

Three associations; WEB Foundation, Leti Arts and the Youth Advocates Ghana, are teaming up to address the pre-adult sexual and regenerative medical problems in the nation.

Through a recently propelled versatile diversion application titled 'My jolley', they look to advise youngsters about regenerative wellbeing.

The main section of the diversion themed, "How far will you go to take everything back", is intended to help youngsters settle on right choices on regenerative wellbeing that will deflect risky premature births in addition to other things.

Madam Geertje Posta, Executive Director of WEB Foundation, initiators of the venture, at the dispatch of the primary part of the amusement, said youngsters invested progressively more energy in their mobile phones and conventional methods for instruction won't accomplish the wanted outcomes.

The diversion addresses the focal issue of dangerous premature births, one of most squeezing difficulties influencing youngsters in Ghana recognized in field look into directed by the three accomplices before the advancement of the amusement.

Different issues recognized and which will be tended to in future sections of the diversion, are adolescent pregnancy, value-based sex, and assent.

"Maybe we can be the pioneers along these lines or attempting to contact youngsters with essential messages like the messages in our diversion; on sexual and conceptive wellbeing and rights", she said, including, "children are finding better approaches to get their data and news approaches to invest their free energy and meet other individuals".

Mr Eyram Akofa Tawia, Chief Executive Officer of Leti Arts, specialized practitioners of the venture, said the amusement was intended to begin toward the end of a story and errands focused on players; between the ages of 12 and 21 years, to fix choices that drove the principle character to the disastrous end for which they are in court.

He said despite the fact that amusements were extremely successful in promotion crusades internationally, the division was exceptionally incipient in Africa, making it a major test to persuade establishments to develop diversions rather putting bulletins.

Mr Tawia said while the way of life of gaming was ignored or seen as unserious in Ghana, it was a practical area and was compelling due its narrating, challenge and intuitive nature.

The 'My Jorley diversion' is at present just perfect with Android PDAs.

Mr Ger J. Steenbergen, First Secretary, Health, of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, said the Kingdom of the Netherlands subsidized the venture since they trusted youth in the nation had the privilege to recognize what sexuality was about and how to be protected, which had been deficient in the nation.

"The adolescent have been minimized thus we have been attempting to bolster associations on the most proficient method to contact youngsters and address them to help them form into develop sound people" he said, including that the diversion was something that youngsters will acknowledge and react to.

Mr Steenbergen said while there was a few insights on risky premature births in the nation, they were not extremely solid because of the forbidden encompassing the issue which did not permit numerous youngsters required to discuss it.

He said the Embassy was subsidizing the venture to the tune of a 100,000 Euros and focused on the association of the adolescent in the improvement of the venture.

The venture likewise prepared youth in video form making utilizing their cell phones and consolidated the movies created by the youngsters into the amusement.

"By doing this, we likewise need to bring youngsters into another diversion industry since that is setting off to another method for business enterprise", he said.

Source: GNA

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