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  • Title: Only the best for my children.
    Author: Quaicoe M.
    Journal: Integration; 1991 Sep; (29):38. PubMed ID: 12284292.
    Abstract:
    The promotional aspect of Ghana's Integrated Family Planning, Nutrition and Parasite Control Project (IP) has begun changing the attitudes of rural people with respect to health and family planning. Residents of the villages of Aberful and Amadua, located in Ghana's Central Region, watched a documentary film entitled Our Village, Our Future. This film, shot in a Philippine village, shows how the IP can improve village life. An effort to provide education on health and hygiene, IP also promotes the benefits of family planning. Interviews with villagers following the showing of the film indicated a positive reaction to the message. One mother explained that she now wished she would have had fewer children, since she would have then been able to provide them with a better education, thereby improving their conditions. Another mother said that she had learned about the importance of nutrition, noting that prior to the beginning of the Integrated Project, who would serve her children whatever food was available. Village children also responded favorably to the IP message. Some of them explained their pursuit of an education had been hampered by their parents lack of family planning. Furthermore, the men in the village have also begun to acknowledge the importance of birth spacing, and have become active in the IP. One farmer noted that because of a lack of education, his parents had more children than they could adequately support. The farmer, however, vowed not to commit the same mistake.
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