The two day course aims to equip learners (both girls and boys) on the different challenges that face young people upon having early sexual relations with both their own peers and older individuals. The approach of the workshop is to quip the learners with life skills to safeguard themselves from being pressured into unhealthy sexual relations at too early age and to also learn the important tools to use when protecting oneself from the different ailments or negative results that can take place when a learner engages in unprotected sex.

The workshop will cover the following elements:

• Teenage sexual development
• The different challenges facing teens at this stage
• South Africa statistics on the numbers of young people failing to leave this stage unaffected
• What is teenage pregnancy?
• Causes of this challenge
• Results of Teenage Pregnancy
• Complications caused by HIV?
• The Blesser Phenomenon – what is it and what are its results?
• Who is at risk?
• Recognising warning signs
• Addressing teenage pregnancy
• Tips for educators
• Tips for parents
• The way forward