Unwanted pregnancy

Karin is a teenager from Cali whose name is not real, but her story is. She is 14 years old and is pregnant; When he was born, his mother was 17 years old. Now she will be a grandmother at 33 Karin's story is dramatic. The father of your baby is a 20 year old who also has another girl pregnant. Karin feels sick, says that pregnancy has given her very hard. And although his case is similar to that of his mother, he says he does not want to repeat the story. He has seven brothers, all of different dad In Cali, in the last 7 years, 51 thousand 751 households saw their daily life dramatically transformed when they learned that their daughters were pregnant. All minors, many of them students and teenagers from public and private schools. They are residents in the communes 13, 14, 15, 16, 21, 18, 20 and one After these teen pregnancies there are very complex stories, ranging from a physical crush, to the desire to have a child with the boss of the strongman in the sector. In many cases a young person in high risk or gang member as the police call it But they are also the result of ignorance, lack of affection in homes and in addition to the social crisis that makes children their victims They also repeat stories of families like Karin's, in which there are fifteen-year-old mothers, grandmothers of thirty and great-grandmothers under fifty. These pregnancies occur in the context of the deep social crisis evidenced by partially formed homes, by a father, a mother or minors left to the care of their grandmother, because the parents left for another country in search of economic opportunities for family According to Diego Calero, Secretary of Health of Cali, every effort is being made to break this circle that impoverishes and leaves the children involved in these cases without a future. "And we are doing this with several processes, starting with access to information and education on sexual and reproductive health for adolescents, breaking schemes and using communication tools such as music, theater and dance," she says. Only then will myths be broken and we will arrive with the messages so that they can be assumed by the young people. Also put into practice to avoid unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases In this strategy, twelve friendly sexual health services are operating in the five social enterprises of the state of Cali. There, issues such as responsibility to the sexual and reproductive health of young people are addressed. They have attended in this year about seven thousand children of the so-called sectors involved in the problem of pregnancies in girls and adolescents.