Ending woes of Kayayei in Ghana: A fight we must all strive to win
Kayayei' represent a highly marginalised and vulnerable group of girls and women in Ghana "A Kayayei reported to my office and within three weeks she died just because her parents had put pressure on her to abort a pregnancy she was carrying for a man whom she was not legally married to. They warned her, if she ever made the mistake of keeping the pregnancy, she will regret for the rest of her life." "The last time I saw of her was when she walked into my office trembling and asked: "What I'm I going to do to survive after giving birth to a baby, and who takes care of it?. I then told her it is okay that she should go ahead and deliver the baby with hope that someone else might take care of it”. “She left home, return the following day which happened to be Saturday morning and said to me, "Boss, see oh! the pressure is becoming too much for me", immediately upon hearing that, I told her not to worry at all that there’s hope after de...