Zambia: Mentoring young girls to become future leaders

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A social movement dubbed Girls Gone Political, which seeks to improve gender parity, is taking Zambia by storm. Young girls are being empowered with leadership capacities to get into politics and bring about change.

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00:30If you look at the statistics right now, most young women don't have a space in which they

00:44can amplify their voices and express some of their challenges and opinions.

00:50And I believe that Girls Gone Political is looking to bridge that gap.

01:13I as a woman can dare to lead, and me being a woman daring to lead is not an invitation

01:18for violence.

01:19It doesn't mean I'm trying to challenge anything.

01:21I'm just trying to challenge the narrative that a woman is meant for the kitchen.

01:25I can be on the spotlight.

01:40To encourage any young person that is watching this, any young woman, that if you believe,

01:47if you pray, if you really claim your spaces, you'll be able to ensure that you are at the

01:53table.

01:55And like one civic leader in the USA once said, is if you're not invited at the table,

02:03you need to carry your chair.

02:04So young people need to be very intentional as things are.

02:08Power will never be thrust upon you, and we just need to find a way to be confident and

02:14to dominate the spaces.

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