During the weekend (21st September 2024) of the 79th United Nations General Assembly in New York City, our Founder and Team Leader Joan Kembabazi joined more than 50 young women from around the world including Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Prize Laureate, gathered in a demonstration organized by girl-centered non-profit organizations, institutions and networks including “She is the First”, where Joan is a fellow of the Girl-Centered Incubator (https://shesthefirst.org/girl-centered-incubator), Malala Fund who have featured Joan’s activism on the Assembly (https://assembly.malala.org/stories/for-girls-uganda-education-is-a-lifesaver), UN Girls Education Initiative and so many more, girl advocates held the United Nations member states accountable for failing to prioritize girls and young women in the planning and content of the Summit of the Future.
At the demonstration in front of the UN, surrounded by life-size cutouts of world leaders dressed ironically as youthful “girl experts”, Joan and Fellow Girl activists delivered a strong message: world leaders aren’t the experts on what girls want and need for their futures—girls are.
Joan represented the girls and young women that Gufasha Girls Foundation works with and for in communities of Uganda and those all over the World who could not be present in New York City and in her speech, she urged World leaders to “LET GIRLS LEAD”. To let girls lead conversations on matters affecting their lives. To let girls lead decisions and solutions.
Gufasha Girls Foundation runs a Girls’ leadership program aimed at building transformative leadership for girls to be gender justice advocates and equip them to be self-assured, confident, resilient, and inclusive everyday leaders that lead change boldly.
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