Students to discuss the ‘value’ of abstinence
STUDENTS aged 11 to 15 years old will today participate in an intensive discussion on the value of abstinence, when the National Family Planning Board (NFPB) hosts a Marge Roper Rap Session on the topic in Spaulding, Clarendon.
The rap session, which is a highlight of National Family Planning Week being celebrated from October 22 to 28, will take place at the Spaulding United Church Hall. The session is scheduled to begin at 9:00 am and continue until 3:00 pm.
Participants will be drawn from ten schools in the Northern Clarendon Region. The schools are: Spaulding, Knox, Alston, Edwin Allen and Claude McKay High Schools; Aenon Town, Johns Hall, Sunbury and Cumberland All-Age Schools and Leicesterfield Primary and Junior High Schools.
Marge Roper is the name of the NFPB’s call-in, walk-in and write-in counselling service and outreach programme. It targets people in the reproductive age group, providing them with easy access to information and counselling on family planning/family life education issues. Counselling is given to people of all ages. Also, from time-to-time Marge Roper is involved in outreach work in schools, offices and the wider community.
National Family Planning Week 2006 was launched on Sunday with a Church Service at the Portmore Missionary Church.
Other activities planned to mark the week include the staging of a Reproductive Health Conference and Exhibition at the Knutsford Court Hotel in Kingston from Thursday to Saturday, and condom distribution islandwide.