Education about cause and effects of teenage pregnancy among school learners and advocay.

1. Teenage pregnancy among school learners
by Zakithi Ganyaza & Monwabisi Mkhize

2. TEENAGE PREGANCY AMONG
SCHOOL LEARNERS
• A teenager is a young adult
between thirteen and nineteen
years old.
• Pregnancy is a condition of a
woman and some female animals
having young developing inside
the womb
• Teenage pregnancy it is then the
condition in which the young adult
or female fall pregnant in an early
age of adolescence

3. CAUSES OF TEENAGE
PREGNANCY AMONG SCHOOL
LEARNERS

4. LACK OF KNOWLEDGE
• Schoolgirl pregnancy, established the lack of authentic knowledge about
sexuality issues.
• Adequate knowledge about sexuality can only be obtained by education
• and the family and parents are regarded as the most suitable to inform the
child about sexuality issues
• However, in certain cultures sexuality issues are the least spoken about or
discussed by members of the family, any sex topic is taboo

5. Peer pressure
• After the family, the peer group is the
most important socialisation agent.
• Peers or school girls are easily influenced
by each other because share a great deal
of their lives with the peer group.
• Teenagers influenced each other to
indulge in sex, using the terms “everyone
does it” or it is because they do not want
to “feel left out”.

6. MEDIA
• The mass media with its sexualised content is also a contributing factor that
perpetuates schoolgirl pregnancies as it gives teenagers easy access to
pornographic and adult television programmes

8. .
Absenteeism
• A pregnant schoolgirl may miss some classes during the day when she is not
feeling well.
• School days are missed when the pregnant schoolgirl has to visit a clinic or
doctor and during the final of stages of her pregnancy, delivery and after the
birth of the baby.

9. Poor performance in school work
• Being frequently absent from school results in pregnant school girls missing
a lot of schoolwork (e.g. lessons, assignments, tests) which results in poor
performance in school work.

10. SCHOOL DROPOUT
• Teenage mothers are unable to cope with
caring for a baby and attending to the
needs of schooling.
• Due to poverty in rural areas schoolgirls
have to leave school and find work to earn
extra income for their children despite the
availability of a child grant.
• Pregnant schoolgirls are stigmatized,
discriminated against in school.

11. Our objective
• We want to reduce the rate of teenage pregnancy among school learners. the
learners have to know about the real causes and effects of teenage pregnancy
and we want the information to be relevant as possible to them.

12. Developing a strategy
• To solve this issue we can launch programmes in school.
• Involve stake holders such as parents, social workers, nurses, pastors,NGOs,
government organisations, and general people from the community who
went through teenage pregnancy
• The involved stake holders will be given a chance to educate according to
their fields of specialisation and experiences about teenage pregnancy.
• There should be fundraising to prepare for the refreshments and other
resources like speakers of the day of the campaign etc.

13. Plan the activities
• Nurses will come to the school and talk with learners about pregnancy and
how it might be prevented in addition learners will be advised about the use
of contraceptive methods such as the use of condoms (both for male and
female), the use of contraceptive pills as well as injection.
• . Another thing that we can do is to build partnership with other groups or
individuals that have the same aim of accomplishing the same purpose/goal.
Working with other groups or individuals will enlarge the support, magnifies
the existing/available recourses and enhance the influence of the campaign.

14. Identify and mobilize the required resources
• When we call parents for a meeting we will need a venue, the venue for meetings
will be the school hall. The school hall have enough chairs for everybody to sit
down.
• The nurses will hand out pamphlets to the learners and parents during our meetings
and these pamphlets will have all the information about teenage pregnancy and how
it can be prevented. For this campaign nurses will have to bring contraceptives such
as pills and condoms, in addition learners will be thought about the safety ways of
using the contraceptives.

15. Monitor and evaluate the campaign’s progress
• Our campaign’s progress will be evaluated through handing out questioners
to learners about the effectiveness of our campaign and how it has changed
their perspectives on teenage pregnancy. The aim of these questioner will be
based on evaluating whether our campaign has been successful or failed to
reach our goal