Early Pregnancies are Preventable

Farai Sylvia Liwewe
Aug 8, 2017 · 2 min read

My name is Farai Sylvia Liwewe from Zambia. I am 26 and I hold Bachelor of Arts Degree in Development studies. I am committed to driving Sustainable Development Goals no. 4 and 5. My passion has always been to help the underprivileged and vulnerable girls. At the age of 10, I read an article in the newspaper that made headlines about a young girl who had been defiled by her stepfather. This article broke my heart and I believe it was the trigger to me understanding and expanding on my desire to help secure the lives of vulnerable girls. Over the years, I realized there was an increase in articles relating to sexual abuse and so was the number of girls dropping out of schools due to early pregnancies. We then need to ask ourselves why there seems to be an increase in early pregnancies and how best we can go about with dealing with this. We must remember that when we effectively begin to deal with child marriages and early pregnancies,a number of intertwining SDGs will be dealt with such as those relating to poverty and health.

I am excited to be part of this founding class of 1000 global talents from 129 countries world wide. It is important for us youths to understand that despite our countries being seemingly independent we in a way co-exist and we pose a greater success to resolving issues affecting our countries and communities if we learn and work together. UNLEASH is giving us a platform to come up with innovative long lasting solutions, not as individuals but collectively and this I believe will make the impacts in our communities more practicable. I look forward to sharing my solutions to dealing with early pregnancies and child marriages which are becoming a challenge to girls accessing education.

#UNLEASHLAB #ZAMBIA #SDGTALENT #EDUCATION&ICT

Mentorship Session with girls who are victims and or at risk of child marriages.

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Farai Sylvia Liwewe

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I am a Children's Rights Activist and a Teen mom mentor. I am passionate about ensuring vulnerable girls have access to education.

UNLEASH Lab

Global innovation lab creating disruptive solutions for the UN's SDGs

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