Wednesday, October 11, 2017

As We Commemorate the International Day of the Girl Child - " Because I am a Girl"

----Because I am a girl---
It does not mean that
I am different from him,
I am incapable,
I cannot do well in school,
I cannot decide on my own,
I cannot lead,
You should choose a partner for me,
You should get me married before I am ready,
You should lay with me to employ me,
You should abuse me in any way.

I also wish to finish school and get employed
I also wish to finish school and open my own company
I want to marry the partner of my choice when I am ready
I want to get on that position because of my skills not because I slept with him
I want to buy a car and a house of my own
I want to be the change maker in this world

----Because I am a girl---


----Stop looking down on girls------

Mumderanji Balakasi at Mlanda Girls Secondary school in 2004 - Form 1

























Mumderanji Balakasi in Blue top, working on a Trachoma Project at Namanja Health Centre in Machinga in 2015