Extended school closure can lead to more pregnancies — Education Watch

According to Education Watch, a recent study it conducted in 200 schools in the country showed that 20% of girls in those schools were pregnant as a result of the prolonged closure of schools.

"This is quite disturbing and now schools are going to remain closed for the next four months. If the data we have in our research is anything to go by, then we are likely to have more girls not returning to school in January 2021," the Executive Director of EduWatch, Mr. Kofi Asare, told the Daily Graphic in Accra last Tuesday.

He, therefore, said it was incumbent upon all parents, teachers, the media, and religious bodies to undertake a vigorous campaign to educate girls to take good care of themselves and stay away from sex, as they await the reopening of schools in January 2021.