Unicef chief calls for greater investment in Tanzanian children
A student of Integrated Programme for Out-of-School Adolescents (IPOSA) at Mlowo Primary School in Songwe Region, Brenda Pazza (18) shows the UNICEF Executive Director, Catherine Russell, the vegetable garden which is one of the projects of the IPOSA. Rusell is on a three-day visit in Tanzania and visited the school yesterday and met with adolescent girls benefiting from Unicef's IPOSA programme which provides education and vocational training for teenage mothers. PHOTO|COURTESY
With Tanzania recording one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the region—nearly 45 per cent in Songwe alone— Unicef is scaling up interventions to ensure adolescent girls have access to skills, education, employment opportunities, and essential health services.
