EVEN GIRLS DREAM

By Christine Mbewe

Many are the times when we get down discouraged and disappointed. Troubles come along, friends go away, and our loved ones are taken away by illnesses and other tragedies. We as girls are tormented and engulfed.

Most of us are afraid of imagining that, we shut our mental doors and turn the key in the lock, we believe it is sign of weakness to be a dreamer, to the far vision of what might be and do.

For many decades now, girls from all angles of life have been victims of child abuse, neglecting, drugs, slavery and sexual exploitation. Killed and above all they are not considered to be or have bright futures.

Most girls give up their lives and they turn to be bad people but not that they want to but because of the circumstances. Girls who are victims of rape, drugs, sex exploitation and other vices are the things we see in our day to day lives. These girls are psychologically and mentally disturbed because of their past experiences. They are hunted by the things that happened to them they turn to despise others, they grow with hatred and vengeance they feel and surely tell themselves that they can do anything. It is not them they are driven by the vengeance in their hearts.

A girl child with such experiences also like any other normal girl child who has never been subjected to such abuse, she wishes that she  had a normal life, with  a caring person around, someone they could talk to and above all a caring family. Girls who have been abused still remain traumatized. Their rights violated by people in the society. What have we done to our motherland? is the question in their minds day in and day out, while others girls spend a time planning for the future. They have shuttled visions they wish someday someone will come to their aid.

So as we commemorate this year’s International Day of  the Girl Child under the theme, “innovating for girls education”, let us innovate to create a better world and platforms for girls enjoy their fundamental human rights. It is therefore the wish and cry of every girl child that someone out there has a heart and desire to help girls overcome obstacles that have indulged persistently in the lives. The Children’s News Agency (CNA) with Support from the European Union (EU)