Stakeholders advocate sex education among persons with disabilities

Contributors at a data-sharing summit on Friday emphasised the need for sexual education among persons with disabilities, particularly girls and girls.

Janet Adekunle of the Hope Impressed Foundation for Girls folk and Formative years eminent that her organisation had developed a sexuality manual to manual caregivers, folks, lecturers, schools, girls and girls living with disabilities on their sexual rights.  

“We private developed a sexuality manual, but we are within the approach of distributing the manual in just a few days,” Ms Adekunle acknowledged. “We private identified that the sexuality manual that the pronounce for the time being has is no longer accessible for all PWDs. We wish all our sexuality manuals to be accessible to all PWDs.”

One more participant, Omolara Daniel eminent that “There were so many boundaries, including sectional limitations and societal boundaries the put folks deem it is some distance a taboo for women and girls with disabilities to explicit any sexual rights.”

Freky Andrew, the coordinator of Faecare Foundation and Daring Hearts Initiative, encouraged folks and caregivers to coach girls on their sexual smartly being in uncover to withhold away from eventualities the put they’re going to “collect the info from any individual else.” 

Lois Auta, the founding father of  Cedar Seed Foundation acknowledged girls and girls living with disabilities private the factual to assemble entry to “education, management and smartly being programs,” primarily primarily primarily based on article six of the United Countries Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities. 

She emphasised the significance of collaboration, the need for resource mobilisation and mentorship among civil societies supporting girls and girls with disabilities.