Comprehensive Sexuality Education

My daughter, CSE

Anong Aurelie Nji is the first daughter to the Nji’s family. Born some 17 years ago, the past three years had been very trying for her and her mother as they keep playing the cat and the dog game. Her behaviour made her mother think she’s been possessed.

Because of this belief, she sought solutions from Reverend Pastors and Fathers.  She was enrolled in PSS Bafut for secondary education due to her tender age. While in PSS Bafut, as she grew older, she started behaving funny.  The result was academics started dwindling as she got to form 4, failed and repeated. From PSS Bafut, she was later enrolled in GHS Nsongwa.

                          

The fights between her and mother increased, scars of scratches on her face also doubled. In Nsongwa, she made friends with older girls who orientated her towards having boyfriends. That’s how she got involved with boy number one and then to boy numbers two and thereafter to boy numbers three. This was how she labeled them in her phone. Each time the parents confiscated a phone, she replaced with a new.

Because of this present crisis, the mother sent her to a friend in Yaoundé. In Yaounde, she got worse.  The mother left Bamenda to Yaoundé just to get her well beaten. This did not change her rather news came that she was borrowing money and things, standing with boys on the streets and not cooperating in doing her house chores.

Fortunately, the mother through WACameroon recently, received knowledge on Comprehensive Sexuality Education especially the modules on: Adolescence and Puberty, Peer Pressure, and Parent-Child Relationship. Mother and daughter meet with an Adolescent Mentor staff from WACameroon. Aurelie opened up to them and her worries were addressed. Presently, mother and daughter are good friends.