Honorine Meda became pregnant herself at the age of nineteen. Now she helps raise awareness of teenage pregnancy among girls in Dissin.
DISSIN, Burkina Faso, Jul 28 2021 (IPS) – Honorine Meda is 23. Cycling through her hometown of Dissin, in Burkina Faso’s verdant southwest, she smiles, waves and stops to chat with one of the girls she counsels.
Thanks to a program by the German development agency (GIZ) and their Pro Enfant initiative, Honorine trained to counsel teenage girls in Dissin on how to avoid pregnancies.
She became pregnant herself, with her now three-year-old son, when she was 19. It was tough, she told IPS.
“I can say it was the hardest at th…