60 Million Girls around the world are not in school. One Girl is out to change that. We work in Sierra Leone, West Africa.
I’ve read somewhere that for many entrepreneurs ‘they are their own project’. When I look at my own personal commitment to One Girl, it’s absolutely true. I feel a deep sense of relatedness to what girls and women go through living in Sierra Leone, and the work I do for One Girl, is work I do for myself.
For the last year or so I’ve been working on accepting and healing from incidences of sexual abuse that occurred when I was young girl. When I first began working through what had happened, I thought that no one had experienced what I had. Turns out, I was wrong. Across the globe, 1 in 3 women and girls will experience sexual violence in their lifetime (and most acts of sexual violence are against girls who are less than 15 years old).
In Sierra Leone, the odds are worse. A Sierra Leoneon girl is GUARANTEED to experience sexual violence in her lifetime and it will most likely occur before she turns 18. Girls as young as 10 years of age are married off to older men, forced into non-consensual sex and end up pregnant before their 15th birthday. This happens to 27% of girls in Sierra Leone.
I’m not a girl in Sierra Leone, but I’m a girl that has experienced some of what these girls go through. I can relate.
I was lucky enough to be born into a country where I have a huge amount of support and resources available to me. It’s my responsibility to use those resources to create massive change in the
world.
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