How can a mother watch her daughter be unproductive each and every day after her education has ended through teenage pregnancy. This was the situation that Mma Sanatu found herself after her daughter (Fuseina) education ended through teenage pregnancy. Mma Fuseina in pain was supporting her daughter to embark on a journey to Accra for kayayei (head pottage) even though she knew the health hazards and risk involved. However, when Fuseina was introduced into the Young urban women Project by her friends, she said no to kayayei because she had learnt from other young urban women that any livelihood that threaten the health and dignity of a person is not decent and should not be engaged in. Fuseina found solidarity among young women who had similar backgrounds and challenges and build an inner will to overcome her background of “cash deficit”. Fuseina is now learning smock weaving from NORSAAC/ActionAid support to young urban women and full of hope for a better tomorrow.
Fuseina is one out of 1000 young women that NORSAAC and ActionAid with funding support from NORAD is empowering to reduce women unpaid care burden and increase access to decent work and sexual and reproductive health services.
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