A happy day indeed, our school was blessed
with wonderful visitors from UNICEF with their champion Fredokiss, born Penjani Kalua.
Their aim was to meet UNICEF scholars, encourage
them and introduce Fredokiss scholarship at our school.
Both UNICEF and Fredokiss motivated and
inspire us and also taught us on the impacts of early marriages and importance
of education
There are some impacts of early marriages.
They say early marriage increases population growth as a person, girl child in
general gets married early and have children at an early stage because of poor
decision making and lack of good planning.
Another impact was about early motherhood.
When a girl becomes a mother at a tender age, sometimes it leads to contacting STI’s
including HIV/AIDS as one can be positive.
They also highlighted on the importance of
education which helps someone to be independent and contributes to the economy
of the country.
The students were extremely happy because
Fredokiss gave scholarships to 10 girls at our school.
**Princess Mkonde is a Youth Out Reporter
at St. Monica Girls Secondary School**
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