Young girls are today's investment and tomorrow's Investors.

Ensuring their sustenance calls for their representation in reproductive health/rights, lifelong learning and gender justice, which serves as a core responsibility of every youth. 

The SDGs calls for the inclusion of all and sundry to ensure no one is left behind. Our girls cannot be left behind!

Love Aid Foundation and the Life Mentoring Concept in partnership with McGharbins Network and PLO Lumumba Foundation is swooping in to make sure reproductive literacy and education is spread and made available to every young girl in Ho Municipality.

There is a time in life when we all have distinct health and developmental needs and rights, as is seen in our human growth patterns (from the ages of 10 to 19).  A time to gain knowledge and skills, learn how to control your emotions, your relationships, and develop traits and abilities that will be necessary for enjoying the time and performing adult duties. A season both boys and girls go through this phase, which is known as the "ADOLESCENCE PERIOD."

Adolescent girls, however, fall under a crucial area of development in comparison to their male counterparts.  Their cycle is a blend of various experiences. Since expectations and societal norms vary amongst them, they tend to develop up to two years behind teenage boys in terms of biologically established developmental stages. Teenage ladies experience a particular set of problems and difficulties (violence related risks, including sexual violence, harmful practices and human trafficking). Teenage females are the target demographic that receives the least amount of attention while being compelled to take on tasks and obligations that limit their mobility and visibility, increase their isolation, and sever their ties to their friends and other social networks.

A baseline study on teenage girls attending Mawuko Girls Senior High School was undertaken in 2022 by LoveAid Foundation in partnership with Life Mentoring Concept (All Study Groups Ghana). Gaps in their social, psychological, political, and economic life were visualized in the survey (which displayed the many communities and locations they hail from). We watched as they went through various stages of development and responded to their surroundings by changing. We identified three stages: the early stage (10–13 years), the middle stage (14–16 years), and the later stage (17-19 years)

The survey also revealed numerous gaps in the Gender space and  issues regarding rising rates of sexual violence, sexual harassment, nutritional imbalance, gender inequality, health risks, a lack of career guidance, mental disorders, negative peer pressure, a lack of parental love, care, and supervision, body shaming, hormonal imbalance, ineffective policy implementation, climate-related risks, unprofessional SRHR education, exploitation, and domestic abuse.

A program that will foster sustainable initiatives in closing and eliminating the gaps and inequities they face, were meticulously detailed and designed by the Girls.

We have aligned our project to the following SDGs goals and targets  because we believe in the localization, visualization, and leaving no one behind principle:

Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
1.4 By 2030, ensure that all men and women in particular the poor and the vulnerable have equal rights to economic resources as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, microfinance.

1.5 by 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate related extreme events and other economic social and environmental shocks and disasters.

Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing 
3.7 By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services, including family planning, information and education and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and Programmes.

Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
4.7 By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including among others through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non- violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development.

Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
5.5 Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision making in political, economic and public life.

5.6 Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of action of the international conference on population and development and the Beijing Platform for action and the outcome documents of their review conferences. 

Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable Economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.
8.3: promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation and encourage the formalization and growth of micro, small and medium sized enterprises including, through access to financial services.

Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
10.2: By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status.

10.4: Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality.

Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
12.8: By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature.

Goal 13: Take Urgent action to combat climate change and its Impacts. 

13.3 Build knowledge and capacity to meet climate change.

Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
16.2: protect children from abuse, exploitation, trafficking and violence

16.3: Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision making 

Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.
17.6: Knowledge sharing and cooperation for access to science, technology and innovation.