Sunday, 1 January 2017

App to enhance adolescent reproductive healthcare launched

Three associations; WEB Foundation, Leti Arts and the Youth Advocates Ghana, are working together to address the immature sexual and conceptive medical problems in the nation.

Through a recently propelled portable amusement application titled 'My jolley', they try to illuminate youngsters about conceptive wellbeing.

The principal part of the amusement themed, "How far will you go to take everything back", is intended to help youngsters settle on right choices on conceptive wellbeing that will deflect perilous premature births in addition to other things.

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

The amusement addresses the focal issue of risky premature births, one of most squeezing difficulties influencing youngsters in Ghana recognized in field explore led by the three accomplices preceding the advancement of the diversion.

Different issues recognized and which will be tended to in future parts of the amusement, are high school pregnancy, value-based sex, and assent.

"Maybe we can be the pioneers along these lines or attempting to contact youngsters with vital messages like the messages in our diversion; on sexual and regenerative 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 assignments 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 diversions were extremely viable in promotion battles comprehensively, the segment was exceptionally beginning in Africa, making it a major test to persuade foundations to develop amusements rather putting announcements.

Mr Tawia said while the way of life of gaming was dismissed or seen as unserious in Ghana, it was a suitable part and was successful due its narrating, challenge and intelligent nature.

The 'My Jorley amusement' is presently just good with Android advanced mobile phones.

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

"The adolescent have been underestimated 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 solid people" he said, including that the amusement was something that youngsters will acknowledge and react to.

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

He said the Embassy was financing the venture to the tune of a 100,000 Euros and focused on the inclusion 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 delivered by the youngsters into the diversion.

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

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