EBÍ-ALÁYÒ: HFDI Advocates Safety In Relationships and Community To Caregivers, Parents
Parents and Caregivers has been urged to embrace safety tips for the family, particularly for the children by creating an enabling environment both in the home and outside the community.
Addressing the participants at the Ebi-Alayo sensitisation programme at Budo -Oke Balla Junction Baalè Compound Ènyèkorin in Asa local government area of Kwara state, the HFDI team noted that safety concern and making a plan can help the teens in the community is important.
Emphasis was made on the need for parents and teens to always have time to share experience, and sit down to make plans together concerning the future, while steps that caregivers and teens can take when things go wrong were also discussed
Also, importance on good communication through conversation with the teens, and its benefits was analysed as benefits of having a good family.
The caregivers and parents were tasked with identifying risks in their communities and how to relate effectively with their family, while fashioning out plans on how to prevent or respond to unhealthy or unsafe situations.
The Ebi-Alayo programme under GC7/N-THRIP Project reiterated its objective of enhancing safety and enabling environment to its participants comprising of Caregivers, parents and teens in attendance.