Erinda

What does life as a woman or girl look like in your country / city / town / village? Any issues / challenges / exciting milestones? Life as a girl in my country is challenging in every aspect. Some girls are engaged at the early age of 16-17 with men older than them. Life as a girl requires you to fight everyday for the basic rights boys are given without thinking twice.

What would you like the world to know about YOU? What life experience, challenge or achievement do you want to share? My life as a girl was mainly affected by my father. Being a conservative, he was always persistent about how I should behave and what was allowed for me. I was always denied basic things only for the fact that I was a girl followed by an inexplicable reason.

What are you most passionate about and what are you doing with that passion? I am most passionate about my education. It is the most important thing in my life right now and I intend to pursue it to its full extent. I plan of achieving success and then making sure to pass all that on to girls equally as powerful. Since I plan on being an economist I have taken interest in the business field and I am convinced with the right will you can achieve whatever you set your mind to.

How have the women and girls around you helped you to get to where you are today? Girls in my country will always be by your side. Even though things are changing, each one of us has somehow experienced a situation where they felt undermined by a man.

Describe yourself in one word: "I am… peerless.

Complete this sentence: "To be a girl or woman today, is to be..." Strong. To achieve greatness and empowerment of yourself with every obstacle in your way.