Ghana’s First Lady Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo last Friday, December 14, joined Sierra Leone’s First Lady Mrs. Maada Bio at 2019 – 2022 strategic plan summit themed: ”#Hands_Off_Our_Girls” at Bintumani conference hall in Freetown.
The “Hands off our girls” project is to protect girls from early marriage and teenage pregnancy.
The biggest problem in Africa especially in Sierra Leone is the teenage girls that are being disadvantaged by their parents and people for sex and early marriage.
With her counterparts, they deliberated on programmes that will adequately deal with issues like child marriage, teenage pregnancy, sexual and gender based violence, child trafficking , cancer and other issues involving women empowerment.
In a tweeted message, Mrs. Akufo-Addo congratuled Madame Maada Bio and her country for the ”Hands Off Our Girls” campaign.
“I congratulate Madame Maada Bio and her country and wish her every success in her effort to end child marriage and reduce teenage pregnancies.”
I am honoured to be in Sierra Leone by the kind invitation of my fellow sister First Lady H.E. Maada Bio. She has taken a bold initiative, to improve the lives of the women and children of Sierra Leone, through an intervention called “HANDS OFF OUR GIRLS”. pic.twitter.com/UDt0n0RRLu
— Rebecca Akufo-Addo (@RAkufoAddo) December 15, 2018
Newsdesk story by Ruth Abla Adjorlolo
