No Sex for Grades! -Save The Children Sierra Leone, NCC Warn

No Sex

Save The Children Sierra Leone in collaboration with the National Commission For Children’s has on Wednesday, 15th July, 2015 sensitized pupils and teachers at the Ahmadiyya Junior Secondary at Kissy in Freetown on the theme; ‘No Sex for Grades in school.’




Speaking at the event, the Commissioner of the National Commission for Children, Mrs. Olayinka Laggeh said that the habit of teachers requesting sex from pupils in return for grades poses serious threat to the psycho social and educational development of pupils across the country.

Madam Olayinka Laggeh informed pupils and the school authorities that the sensitization campaign will empower pupils to work hard and desist from encouraging teachers who are in the habit of requesting sex from pupils for good grades.

She noted that, reducing sex for grades in schools will also help to reduce teenage and unwanted pregnancies among pupils, adding that, due to the high rate of child pregnancy in schools, an International organization called United Nations International Children Emergency Fund conducted a national survey across the country and rated Sierra Leone as the third most common country for the large number of dropouts in schools.

School pupils and teachers, he went on, were extremely happy for the theme and seized the opportunity to assure her audience that, Save The Children and the National Commission for Children together with government would explore all means humanly possible to curtail such unholy activities in schools.