A reproductive health solutions group, The Challenge Initiative (TCI) has taken family planning neighbourhood campaign to grassroot communities in Osun State.
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TCI, through its family planning mobilizers at the weekend, visited Abesu community in Osogbo Local Government, to tell couples about the benefits of spacing their children and to encourage them to take up family planning.
Team Lead of the mobilizers, Adesina Gboyega explained that adopting family planning in a world beset by economic challenges and overpopulation was not a bad idea, stressing that family planning could also help prevent maternal and child mortality.
Gboyega noted that the neighborhood campaign provided a good opportunity to interact with and educate women of the community on the different methods of family planning available and to issue a “gold card” to any interested woman to take to the nearest Primary Healthcare Centre.
“The campaign is about family planning and we are mobilisers for TCI. What we do is to go to communities, preaching family planning and advising women of child bearing age to consider taking up a family planning method.
“We educate them on the benefits of family planning and the different methods available. We thereafter give what we call “Gold Card” to any interested clients.
“Once they get to the Primary Healthcare Centre with the gold card, the provider at the centre will again educate them on the different methods available and thereafter give them the one suitable for their body”, he said.
According to Gboyega, the essence of the campaign was to sensitize families on the health benefits of family planning and to educate them on the need to adequately space their children.
The Team Lead further stated that the family planning campaign which started about two years ago had yielded positive results in the local government and environs.
He added that it had recorded about 60 per cent positive response since the beginning of the year, despite misconceptions and myths about family planning.
He said the campaign had also helped in convincing women that family planning does not have any negative side effects.
Gboyega appealed to couples who were yet to embrace family planning to do so to enable them take advantage of its benefits and to enjoy a healthy family life.
The mobilizers went from house to house in the community during the campaign, educating women and men on the benefits and importance of family planning.
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