The Population Study and Teaching Group (GEEP), in partnership with the Academic Inspection (IA), teaching staff and Parent Teacher Associations (APE), continued on Saturday, June 8 , its health awareness campaign aimed at young middle school students and adolescents in Kaolack schools. This initiative aims to raise awareness among these young people about the health challenges they constantly face in their school curriculum (reproductive health, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), transmission of HIV, early pregnancies), among others. .
Since at the family level young people, for reasons of taboo, are rarely made aware of these issues of health and reproduction, the GEEP, under the direction of its regional coordinator, Ms. Rawane Boly, considered it useful to make up for this lack in the school environment. For this, the CEM “Mawo Diouf” was the first establishment to host this type of mini-conference led by a specialist in young adolescent health.
Several topics were discussed during this meeting which mobilized hundreds of college students. And most of them returned with the feeling of having acquired new knowledge about health and the new behaviors to adopt to last a long time at school. Because the objective was also to equip these young people with the instinct to alert each time they are confronted with any health deficit, aggression or other anomaly.
Abdoulaye FALL
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