Robert is a successful educator and teacher with over eight years’ experience in handling school related issues particularly students subject combination, career choices and their socio personal issues. Robert currently implements projects on youth participation and reproductive health in the Obuasi Municipality and the Adansi South District of the Ashanti Region. Robert is a volunteer for the National Youth Authority as a District desk Officer at the Adansi South District. He has a diploma in Youth in Development Studies from the University of Ghana and holds a Bachelor degree in Guidance and Counselling from the University of Education, Winneba. He is also a trained teacher with a Diploma certificate in Basic Education from the Accra College of Education. He is analytically minded individual with goal oriented spirit and an excellent team player. He is the founder and Executive Director of Youth Alliance for Development which is a youth focused and youth led registered NGO based in Obuasi. He was part of the team that represented the Ashanti Region at the national technical meeting to adopt the implementation plan of the Youth Policy which the government adopted in 2015. His love for community work earned him a slot as a participant at the YALI cohort three training, West Africa Regional Training center at GIMPA. Robert will graduate with a Master of Public Health from the University of Ghana in November, 2018.
During the primary data collection stage of his research at the university, he realized that extensive education on health promotion and disease prevention could go a long way to improve the total well-being of girls in rural communities in Ghana and also increase the completion rate o in School. Robert therefore initiated the Anti-Teenage Pregnancy Campaign through his organisation to provide education on reproductive health to rural adolescents in 2014. The campaign also focuses on addressing gender related issues such as human right abuses in our homes and schools, harassment in all forms and some cultural values that infringe on the rights of girls in our society. The campaign also equip teen girls on how to report such abuses to the appropriate office. The Ghana Education Service and the Ghana Police Service are currently partnering us in our effort. Today school girls have the contact of the Police crime office where they can call to report all forms of harassment for investigations to commence. The formation of the girls clubs has led to a reduction of cases of teenage pregnancy among final year students in the Adansi South District.