Statement
Family planning: empowering people, developing nations
11 July 2017
In Sierra Leone, teenage pregnancies are commonplace, and school completion rates are unacceptably low. But family planning programmes, supported by UNFPA, are empowering people to choose if and when to have children, and how many children to have. By enabling young people to stay in school and find productive employment, family planning is helping Sierra Leoneans to pursue better futures for themselves and their families.