LYNCHBURG - A new program designed to educate teenagers about conceiving children is generating lots of kudos.

The city's health department awarded a multi-million dollar contract to Freedom University last month to educate our young men and ladies about preventing pregnancy.

The program is composed of an awareness campaign about purity and abstinence, along with information about interracial dating.

Religious groups have praised the project, saying it teaches the blessings of waiting until marriage.

Virginia officials say that the number of students who are engaging sex is on the rise, and that it's vital to provide them with information about their only option.