Osun: TCI sensitises Ayepe Community residents on family planning, child spacing

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An NGO, The Challenge Initiative (TCI) on Thursday took family planning campaign to Ayepe community in Osogbo Local Government Arae of Osun on the benefits of child spacing.

During the campaign, the TCI family planning mobilisers sensitised residents in the community, especially women on the benefits of family planning for their well being.

The team lead of the campaign, Mr Gboyega Adeshina, said that the essence of the campaign was to sensitise women on benefits of child spacing in face of the present economic situation in the country.

According to him, Family planning empowers individuals and couples to make informed choices about their reproductive health, including when and how many children to have, through methods like contraception and addressing infertility.

Adeshina, who noted that they had been engaging on the family campaign in Osogbo local government in the last three years, said that the campaign had yielded positive results.

According to him, family planning is for the effective management of the home and the well-being of women.

He,.however, urged men to always support their wives to take up family planning methods, adding that family planning does not in may way make women to be promiscuous has been speculated.

“This orientation that men have that women become promiscuous after taking up family planning method is not correct.

“We are talking to our men to support our women to take up family planning.

“We are educating our men that family planning is to ensure that there is peace, understanding and collaboration between husband and wife.

“Family planning allows for peace in the home and not a licence for women to be promiscuous” he said.

On the success rate of the campaign, Adeshina said it had recorded 80 per cent Successes.

He urged women who were yet to take any of the family planning methods to do so to enable to give birth to number of children they could adequately take care of.

The highlights of the campaign was the distribution of “Gold card” to prospective women who were willing to take up the family methods during the campaign.

The “Gold card” would allow the women to be attended to in any of the primary care centres in the local government on any family planning methods suitable for their body.