Teenage Network facilitates the return of out of school adolescent mothers to school. The project collaborates with School regulatory bodies to review policies that prevents the return of girls who dropped out of school as a result of Teenage Pregnancy, mobilizes community support for Adolescent mothers’ education, develops the capacity of school administrators and Counsellors to ensure returning adolescent mothers are reintegrated smoothly and free from stigmatization within the four walls of the school, and provides Educational Items for returning Adolescent Mothers
Teenage pregnancy is one of the leading causes of school dropout among girls of senior secondary school age in Nigeria. As much as there are a lot of targeted effort at reducing the rate of Teenage pregnancy in Nigeria, the needs of millions of girls who had dropped out of school as a result of pregnancy are unattended to.
The REAMS project reduces the gender-inequality gap in education, reduces adolescent mothers’ vulnerability to gender-based violence, and increases access to decent job and leadership opportunity. It also guarantees further reduction in the number of out-of-school children in Nigeria. Thirty percent of children born to reintegrate Adolescent Mothers enroll in school within 6months.
Teenage Network has successfully piloted this project in the FCT and currently expanding the scope across the nation.