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Yvonne Harrison, aged 17, has been denied the right to education because of pregnancy.
Yvonne, a first-year junior high school student and her one-year-old son, left school last year after her pregnancy because her mother had decided not to allow her to continue. his studies.
Yvonne's mother, Augustina Mensah, explained that she had made this decision because the man who had put her daughter in the child had refused to take responsibility.
She then explained that it was impossible for her to take financial responsibility for caring for Yvonne and her grandson.
Instead, she plans to sponsor her daughter to learn a trade. This will effectively end Yvonne's dream of becoming a nurse, said Henry Kwasi Badu, a Joy News reporter.
Yvonne is part of the growing number of dropouts in the municipality of Ahanta West, in the western region, where, out of five pregnancies, one is a teenager.
For these alarming numbers, many girls may be deprived of reaching their full potential at school.
Catherine Effah Otto, director of health of the municipality of West Ahanta, said that the municipality ranked first in the last five years with regard to early pregnancy in the West region.
She attributes the high prevalence to poor parental supervision.
Greater Accra has recorded a total 10,000 cases of teenage pregnancy in 2015.
"The sad thing is that we have children as young as 10 to 14 years old who become pregnant and even if we see a reduction, it's still not acceptable," said the regional director of Health, Dr. Linda Van Otoo, during this year's review.
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