June 2009

Young People and Public Speaking

Vol 17. No. 2

Front Cover

• Young People and Public Speaking

Inside this Issue

• Poems
• Newsreel
• Photo Report
• Dear Diary
• Advert: 16th Teenage Festival of Life
• Body Awareness
• Watch Your Manners: Public Speaking Manners
• Dear Aunty
• True Life Story: Oh Yes, You Can
• Career Guide: Do you want to be a Food Technologist?
• Young Achiever: Olaide Adesopo
• Personal Hygiene: Hygiene Facts for Life
• Book Review: Youths to the Rescue of a Nation

Back Cover

• Resources

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.

AHI’s Youth centre is located at:

17, Lawal Street,
Off Oweh Street
Jibowu,
Lagos, Nigeria.

All correspondence should be addressed to:

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

Tel: 01-7743745
E-mail: info@actionhealthinc.org
Website: http://www.actionhealthinc.org

Special Thanks

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