One of the ways of reducing poverty and teen pregnancy in communities within the Upper East Region of Ghana is to provide skill training to adolescents. The provision of this skill training will help reduce teen pregnancy as income will be generated preventing adolescents from. Liquid soap production for sale has been one of the major breakthroughs in providing livelihood due to its high demand as a result of the outbreak of covid-19 and has caused people to adhere to certain life styles to prevent the spread of the virus.

In view of this, International Women’s Hope Centre (IWHC) has empowered seventy-nine adolescents in Winkongo community, a suburb of Bogatanga, the regional capital of Upper East in Ghana on how to make liquid soaps and how to market their products.

The Centre Director of IWHC Gladys Anayem admonished the adolescents to take the training seriously since the skills obtained from the training would be of benefit to them. She used to opportunity to advise them to abstain from pre-marital sex as they could get pregnant or could also be infected with any of the sexually transmitted diseases or infections.

The trainers Mrs. Rose Abednego and Francisca Fynn took the participants through the various stages in the preparing the liquid soap with the available ingredients which includes perfume, colour, booster, salt, a bucket of water among others. The adolescents observed the preparation carefully and had opportunity to ask questions. The adolescents were grouped into three groups and were tasked to replicate the procedures in making the soap with guidance from the trainers.

The three groups were tasked to sell the liquid soaps they had prepared and were asked to reinvest the profit they will make into the business.