{"id":38737,"date":"2019-01-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/3-375-teenagers-became-mothers-in-six-months-of\/"},"modified":"2019-01-08T09:21:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T09:21:35","slug":"3-375-teenagers-became-mothers-in-six-months-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/3-375-teenagers-became-mothers-in-six-months-of\/","title":{"rendered":"3 375 teenagers became mothers in six months of 2018 in East Province"},"content":{"rendered":"

The figures were revealed by the Ministry of Health on Sunday during the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) end of year meeting that brought together members of the Inkotanyi in the Eastern Province.<\/p>\n

Speaking to participants during the meeting, Rwanda\u2019s Chief Gender Monitor, Rose Rwabuhihi said that statistics by the Ministry of Health indicate that 3375 girls aged between 15 and 19 years were impregnated and delivered children in the first six months of the year 2018.<\/p>\n

A total of 737 girls were from Gatsibo District counting most pregnancies and 251 from Rwamagana; with the smallest number.<\/p>\n

Rwabuhihi urged RPF members to stand up all together and fight the unwanted pregnancies among teenage girls.<\/p>\n

The Governor of the Eastern Province, Fred Mufulukye said the unwanted pregnancies in teenagers increase with abuse of drugs and irresponsible families that don\u2019t care for their children.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur analysis reveals that drugs and the fact that children are not cared for by their families are reasons why teen pregnancies keep increasing. We are going to build the Village\u2019s cultural school \u2018Itorero ry\u2019Umudugudu\u2019 which will help us identify problems within families and after which we will partner to resolve them as RPF Inkotanyi party members,\u201d Mufulukye said. <\/p>\n

The Commissioner in charge of Agriculture and Rural Development in RPF, Francine Tumusiime, who represented RPF Secretary General at the meeting, urged RPF members to work together in fighting malnutrition and the violence faced by girls which are among challenges to Rwanda\u2019s national development.<\/p>\n

After the meeting, members of the RPF in Eastern Province resolved to work together in fighting the stunting among children, the gender based violence and family conflicts through Rwandan cultural values set to be enhanced through the \u2018village\u2019s cultural schools\u2019. <\/p>\n

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Rwanda's Head of the Gender Monitoring Office said 3,375 teenage girls were impregnated and became mothers in the first six months of the year 2018 – Rwanda's Head of the Gender Monitoring Office, Rose Rwabuhihi said 3375 teenage girls were impregneted and became mother in first six months of the year 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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RPF members in Eastern Province at the meeting – RPF members in Eastern Province at the meeting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

3375 teenagers in the Eastern Province became mothers after they delivered children in the first six months of the year 2018. The numbers reduced by a half compared to first six months of the previous year (2016) as 6386 young girls had delivered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38737"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38737"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}