Many little girls dream of being a beautiful bride with a fancy white dress, colorful flowers, and dancing the night away with the love of her life. These little girls might even have a pretend wedding, complete with a dandelion bouquet and mommy’s high heels...
In 2011, the UN declared the 11th of October as the International Day of the Girl, to empower girls and to acknowledge the discrimination and inequality girls face on a global, and staggering, scale. The theme for the 2016 International Day of the Girl is Girls’...
Chief Theresa Kachindamoto has been a senior Malawi chief in Monkey Bay for the last 13 years for around 900,000 people. As the youngest of 12 children, she never imagined she would one day become chief. It wasn’t even something she wanted...
Memory Banda opens her TED talk with a poem written by a 13 year old girl entitled “I Will Marry When I Want, in which the speaker claims she will not marry until she is grown up, well educated, and even if she is beaten it will be a choice made by her and not...
