In the thread of the post on the controversy of nursing rooms in schools I have known the "Don't change Your Backpack for a Baby" campaign promoted by the National Federation of Provincial Patrons of Ecuador, through the project "Baby, think about it".
It is a teenage pregnancy prevention program as part of a national action that promotes reflection on the causes, effects and solutions to this problem that more than 45,000 Ecuadorian girls live each year and which translates into a worrying reality that There are more than 122,000 mothers between 12 and 19 years of age.
The project constitutes an alternative that public and private institutions put into practice in search of reduce the number of teenage pregnancies whose consequence is generally reflected in the abandonment of studies, economic poverty and the renunciation of personal life projects. And that without counting the physical risks that an early pregnancy entails.
Students who participate in the "Do not change your backpack for a baby" campaign agree, after having worn "baby simulators" dolls for two days, that it is not time yet to be fathers or mothers.
We moved from Panama (with the proposal of nursing rooms in schools) to Ecuador, but the reality of teenage pregnancies, mostly unwanted, is common in all countries.
Therefore campaigns like "Don't change your backpack for a baby", which affects the time to train and not have children, are still necessary. Insufficient sex education is at the base of the problem.
