Greatest Expression : A Freewrite

You mentioned volunteerism, yes, earlier on in your career, yes. And how that somehow put you in the path of your greatest expression of your latent gifts and potentials. Let's talk about volunteerism and. How that could help empower and shapen the girl child to become all that she should be. Charles. This is an aspect that we do not take advantage of In this part of the world.

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Volunteerism is extremely important. It's almost like having a real job. Because in the environment we find ourselves after school, they ask you what skills do you have, what experiences do you have? Volunteerism counts as very serious experience for young girls, young women particularly.

So even at Girls Inspired, one of the key things that we do under one of our programs, which we call MHOB, the Mentorship Hub, is this. Once a girl leaves school. We give her the opportunity to learn a skill, and then we connect her to a place where she can actually volunteer her time or make use of those skills.

If she's lucky, she gets paid. But the key thing is that she's learning a skill and she's improving on herself and her personal development such that in the event that she decides to go to university, she. Not going to be handicapped when it comes to finding funding for herself to, you know, pay certain bills, which will often oftentimes be the differentiator when it comes to should I get a boyfriend or a sugar daddy.