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Nov 09, 2009 News
The Roman Catholic Church held its second annual Conference on abstinence at the Marian Academy Saturday from 9:00hrs to 16:00 hrs.
The conference was attended by children from different schools.
According to Programme Coordinator Lucretia Stanton, the objective is to help young people to be aware of the music and advertisements that carry negative messages that are unconsciously registered into young minds, while enlightening them to live out positive morals and values.
Lawerence Kendall, a member of the Managing Committee said they are promoting abstinence instead of the promotions of condoms that is so prevalent in Media advertisements.
“However, many would say abstinence wouldn’t work but the same amount of money spent to promote condoms, the same amount can be used to promote abstinence and we could see a new change in behavior of young people,” Kendall said.
The church also celebrated awareness day in October to help people understand the choices they have, with abstinence being touted as one of the important choices.
The facilitator Timothy King said that the program is geared to empower the children to analyse the entertainment they are interacting with on a daily basis so that they can make healthy choices and decisions in bettering their lifestyle, especially the issue of sexuality and HIV\AIDS protection.
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