December 2007

TFL 2007: Securing Our Future

Vol 15. No. 4

Front Cover

• TFL 2007: Securing Our Future

Inside this Issue

• Educational Planning: Managing your Time (page 3)
• Embarrassing Moment (page 5)
• Poems (page 6)
• Photo Report: President, National 4-H Council Visits (page 7)
• News Reel (Page 9)
  • Orientation Programme for Public Health Nurses
  • Capacity Building for Schools for the Physically and Mentally Challenged
  • AHI Trains the Trainers
  • World AIDs Day 2007
  • Increasing the Capacity of Health Providers on Teenage Pregnancy and Unsafe Abortion
  • Boy Scouts Sensitized on Drug Abuse
• LEAP Africa Honors 10 Nigerian Achievers (page 11)
• Special Report: (page 12)
  • The 14th Edition of the Teenage Festival of Life (TFL) 2007
• Watch your Manners (page 15)
  • Good Manners and Positive Behaviour
• Young Achiever: Ms. Goldmark Owofa Adeojo (12-year old Advocate) (page 16)
• Career Guide: Do you want to be a Geologist? (page 18)
• Body Awareness: Self Esteem (page 19)
• True Life Story: “Never Give Up” (page 20)
• Dear Diary (page 22)

Back Cover

• Resources (page 24)
  • Looking Good: A Young Person’s Guide to Body Care
  • Success Despite the Odds: Lessons on Early Marriage in Northern Nigeria
  • Hidden: A Profile of Married Adolescents in Northern Nigeria
  • Successful Time Management: A Self-teaching Guide (Second Edition)

Issue Information

Growing Up is published quarterly in Lagos, Nigeria by Action Health Incorporated (AHI).

AHI is a non-profit organization working in Nigeria to provide adolescents access to the much needed reproductive health education, life-planning skills and services as a major step towards addressing the high incidence of unintended teenage pregnancy, related school dropout, clandestine abortions, sexually transmitted disease/AIDS and related deaths.

Growing Up is available free of charge to teenagers and other individuals working to promote teenagers health and development. Readers are invited to contribute views, articles, letters, and photos for publication. Articles may be quoted or reprinted from Growing Up provided proper credit is given to AHI.

All correspondence should be addressed to:

The Editor, Growing Up
Action Health Incorporated
PO Box 803, Yaba
Lagos, Nigeria

Special Thanks

This edition of Growing Up was produced with support from the support from the Population Programme, MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, Illinois.