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Group trains 200 for anti-HIV/AIDS campaign in Ondo council
OVER 200 people have been trained by the Centre for Adolescents Information and Development (CEFAID) to educate rural dwellers in Akoko North West Local Council of Ondo State on the menace of unwanted pregnancy and HIV/AIDS.
The Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Mr. Victor Olabimitan, while speaking at the end of the training held in Arigidi Akoko at the weekend, enjoined those involved in the programme to effectively preach the evils inherent in unwanted pregnancy and HIV/AIDS.
Olabimitan, who stressed the need for everybody in the state to be involved in the campaign so as to check the spread of the disease, assured of government's assistance at all times.
He commended the Executive Director, Youth Care Project, Mrs. Nike Okunrinmeta, for initiating a programme that had to do with curbing the menace of unwanted pregnancy and STI/HIV/AIDS in the state.
Also, in her address, the wife of the state Governor, Mrs. Olufunke Agagu, advocated the need to empower youths in the state so that they could be self-reliant.
According to her, it is a cardinal programme of the present administration not just to provide civil service jobs for the teeming youths in the state but to make them self-reliant, sustaining and independents.
"I want to assure that youths of the state would be well empowered in all sectors of the economy. The government has introduced youths to agricultural programmes and other laudable schemes at every local council to take care of them," she said.
Earlier in her address, Okunrinmeta said CEFAID, a project of the Youth Care Project, Lagos, collaborated with the Akoko North West Local Council to educate over 20,000 adolescents (male/female) on the dangers of unwanted pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AID.
She said the peer health educators, after receiving training for six months had received certificates and were sufficiently equipped to face the challenges ahead of them.
The executive director charged them to use the knowledge they had acquired to change the lives of youths in the council for better.
Okunrinmeta canvassed government's assistance, saying that much would not be achieved, except government came to the aid of the organisation.
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